Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
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.
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.