★★☆☆☆Screening in the Un Certain Regard sidebar at this year's Cannes Film Festival, Jaime Rosales' Beautiful Youth (2014) aspires to a gritty realism but its narrative slackness make it a gimmicky and occasionally complicit portrayal of Spanish love on the dole. Carlos (Carlos Rodríguez) and Natalia (Ingrid García Jonsson) are a young couple, both without work and both living with their mothers - their fathers being largely out of the picture. They go from day to day, bored and listless except on the occasions they go out for a night with their friends. Carlos gets some money working for his friend's father on a building site. But the work is cash in hand - not a great deal of cash at that - and sporadic.
- 5/21/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
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