2019 · drama · coming-of-age
This Is Not Berlin
Directed by Hari Sama1h 55m2019
Seventeen-year-old Carlos doesn't fit in anywhere, not in his family nor with the friends he has chosen in school. But everything changes when he is invited to a mythical nightclub where he discovers the underground LGBTQ nightlife scene: punk, sexual liberty and drugs.
Our read: This Is Not Berlin (2019) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive drama · coming-of-age entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured drama / coming-of-age, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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