Review of Submarine

Submarine (2010)
6/10
Teenage virginity in Wales
27 August 2011
The films about this problem are becoming uncountable. You can't say that those movies have high ambitions all the time, but which one has.

Oliver is 15 in the beginning of the 80s. He's very intellectual and very precise in his comments about the world, which is not uncommon among film teenage virgins. But he meets this girl and since he is anyway just 15 when it comes to emotional maturity, there are problems.

But these problems are mirrored against Oliver's parents relation difficulties. That puts the movie to several levels at the same time, which is hard to accomplish, and the director doesn't succeed here. Charming film, but it's making things too complicated for itself.
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