THE BOLD STORY OF A NAIVELY SPICY TEENAGER
I have to confess that for years, possibly 2018 when I saw it for the first time, it has been one of those "guilty pleasure" type films. One of those that I watch when I want to remember something from my adolescence. And boy does it do the job.
Spanish short film (which could be said to be one of the classics of Spanish independent LGTB+ cinema and even if you want, a "cult" film in the LGTB+ scene) that addresses the oldest sensations, desires and experiments in the world, from the point of view of a crazy teenager just as hormonal as many of us at the time. Let's not pretend that we all went through that and we enjoyed it in our own way! And the fact that it was made 23 years ago with an obvious advance for its time is phenomenal.
The acting of the protagonist is sublime, and his role is for me, one of the best in the Spanish scene, I say this because his role is very difficult to achieve, with that UNIQUE naturalness and spontaneity that is not achieved no matter how much exhaustive coaching is done. You are born having that something that makes you get hooked on the story of your character. Sublime!
Whoever thinks that we praise the oldest behavior in the world is seeing the brusqueness in the other's eye and not the essence that the director wanted to capture.
This was an attempt super ahead of its time, to capture the experiences (as I said) of our teenage pasts, but in a fresh way in its time, which has aged over time in its almost 24 years of release, perhaps independent LGBT + cinema should take note and reconsider both how it is produced, how it is directed, how it is structured and how it is done properly and without so many unnecessary clichés, excellent films and even with messages.
Like a good wine, we as adults now enjoy this work, which wastes almost nothing... or perhaps it should have had more time.
Perhaps it is a comedy, so that we all play the cassette back as we say here and have a good laugh, remembering in a way that is neither boring nor dull, those years of adolescence where we sent the limits to the green meadows.
The title of my review is an extract from the song "Hoy Voy A Gozar De Ti" by Lefty Pérez.
