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Entretanto

Directed by Miguel Gomes
Portugal, 1999
Short, Drama

Synopsis

Three youths, an androgynous girl and two boys, circle around each other in love: during rugby training, at a pool party and on the beach. Three-way kisses, mean words and half-serious scuffles. Surreal snapshots almost without words, accompanied by the Kinks and Doris Day.

Synopsis

Three youths, an androgynous girl and two boys, circle around each other in love: during rugby training, at a pool party and on the beach. Three-way kisses, mean words and half-serious scuffles. Surreal snapshots almost without words, accompanied by the Kinks and Doris Day.

Our take

Miguel Gomes’s inventive debut short captures the electric intensity of adolescence through the lustful dynamics of a teenage love triangle. Moving to the delirious thrills of popular music and the deliberate pace of slow tracking shots, this so-called ‘musical comedy’ is achingly impressionistic.