Sublime

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.

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.

The story of "Sublime" is quite simple and one-sided, yet well told. Eventhough the theme of exploring one's sexuality in their teenage years has already been filmed many times in recent years, "Sublime" offers a very unfussy and intimate insight into the life and mind of Manuel without much drama or a big unexpected twist - which I would say is a good quality in this case. Because it concentrates around the character of Manuel, a 16 year old boy who started having feelings for his male best friend, this film could be attractive for younger generation of viewers, who could easily see themselves being the main character in this film.

Apart from the Hollywood world, which warms and warms up stereotype LGBTQ characters like Call Me By Your Name and brings them before us, more grounded scenarios from non-English speaking countries (especially Spanish speaking) are not at the box office, but are met by the audience at festivals and in the subsequent sales process.

A escondidas, Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho, Ete 85 and Close and Berdreymi, which are currently shown in cinemas and fertile, are some good examples of this.

Born in 1980, director Mariano Biasin (except for his previous short films and assistant directorships) is his directorial debut, Sublime, and is a very good Coming-Of-Age story.

Still circulating at festivals, Sublime is one of the productions you should add to your Watchlist this year.