A little movie, with some value

hardland

When you see a movie about something controversial you can focus on your opinion on the subject... or you can focus on the film.

This is a movie about sex and teenagers, and yo have to choose between your opinion and what the movie is. But when putting stars to a movie or writing down a review... I prefer thinking only about the movie.

And... it has an excellent photography, and a pair of really good actress (Marisa Valverde, as Melissa; and Geraldine Chaplin as her grandmother).

But the film relays excessively on its matter. It lacks dramatic progression, or any deep sight inside the characters. So you have to get tied only to the sexual experience of the girl.

That's why for me the film just deserves a six.

But I think it will be ethically wrong to avoid saying a word about its subject. This movie begins as a transgressive one... only to turn around as a conservative one near the end.

And I deeply dislike it. The true usually lies in libertine lives.

score 6/10

hardland 7 January 2010

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw2187813/