Sublime

Despite some glowing reviews here, I simply cannot agree that this is a good film. A lot of screen time is spent on showing a band that has hopes for success. Perhaps they will, perhaps they won't. This sums up too the off and on platonic closeness between two teenage youths and despite yearning gay glances they pay rather lack lustre ' love ' attention to teenage girls. Like the music it is annoyingly repetitive and must have been annoying for at least one of the girls (if this was real life, as this film seems to aspire to that debatable state of reality.) I know that teenagers go through questioning agonies over their sexual orientation, but then a lot of so-called adults have the same problem. It comes with a lot of gay film territory, and as long as homophobia within and without continues it will continue to do so. There is one kiss (gay or perhaps platonic love ? Hard to tell as it had absolutely no give away signs as to feelings.) Not much more to say than this is an Argentinian film and the acting was adequate.

I would say that this film didn't meet the expectations i had after reading all the positive reviews and recommendations.

The story is indeed interesting and original. What didn't really amaze me is the way the story develops, since I found the characters' interaction with each other particularly static and with no actual profound moment.

The storytelling is very slow and monotonous, without a single hint of enhancement throughout the whole movie.

What I did appreciate about this film is the way the main character is portrayed, a depiction of LGBT people that stays true to the reality of the majority of queer people in Argentina and in many other parts of the world.

It's not that bothered me somehow, it was just so empty and wordless that gets tired. This movie doesn't communicate nothing interesting during its entire history.

I have to admit that it does have sensibility scenes and a little bit of reflection, but it's still not enough to cover a repetitive and slow emotional pallets.

Instead of dreams demonstrating how Manu felt about Felipe, why not develop their relationship during the years and then how they should deal with challenges? It's just how I see a handful of ideas thrown into a melancholic and spiritless disappointing teenage drama.

However, it does have a right direction carried in long plans, with insufficient emotional charge.

It seems a sum of virtues. From the admirable young actors to the beautiful music, plot and gentle - precise exploration of youth , in its basic traits ,its feelings, reactions, love and revenge, try to be like others and torture of unspoken truths with simplicity and rare science to explore details.

A film about friendship, love and ( self ) discover.

Seductive at whole, powerful, delicate and wise crafted scene by scene.

In short, for reasons to discover step by step, a pure delight because its realism is far to be essence of manifesto or demonstration of forms of correctness.

A beautiful film , impressive for authentic freshness, for dialogues and for cinematography.

Easy to love it.

This is a fairly subtle gay coming-of-age tale that should more accurately have been titled "Sublimated." It skillfully integrates Manu and Felipe's progress in developing a rock band with the warming of their personal relationship.

Periodic vignettes of Manu and Felipe remind of what is operating behind the straight façade, but there is no outright sexual activity. The furnished van in the woods that is set up for illicit encounters could have served that purpose. It is actually a vehicle to give the plot a secondary line.

Child actors seldom move on to adult success because their charm at 16 does not carry over to a serious acting career. They are not professionally trained although these youngsters deserve the benefit of the doubt.