Album for the Youth
(Álbum para la juventud)
Malena Solarz | Fiction, Drama, Comedy
2021 | 82 minutes | Argentina
Pedro & Sol, fresh out of high school, embrace their passions: Sol revisits music, and Pedro secretly dives into writing. Unbeknownst, they mature.
Synopsis
In her solo debut feature, director Malena Solarz takes a surprising, gentle, altogether gratifying approach to the coming-of-age genre. Encouraging naturalistic performances from her charming cast and using a rigorously unshowy visual approach, Solarz explores how young people navigate their creative impulses, focusing on Sol and Pedro, who, during summer break after high school graduation, prepare for possible futures as, respectively, a musician and a playwright.
Drifting through tiny, mundane moments of connection and personal growth, exam preparations, and writing workshops, Album for the Youth eschews predictable narrative beats of revelation; rather than being exalted, the artistic endeavor is treated as a natural part of the human condition. - New Directors/New Films-MoMA
Reviews
"Inspired scenes, beautiful gestures, and intelligent observations about small rites of passage between adolescence and impending adulthood." - Diego Battle, Otroscines.com
"A coming-of-age film without a sense of urgency." - Milagros Amondaray, La Nación
Citation
Main credits
Solarz, Malena (film director)
Solarz, Malena (screenwriter)
Canepari, Santiago (actor)
Rausch, Ariel (actor)
Other credits
Cinematography, Fernando Lockett; music, Julián Solarz.
Citation
Cataloging
Pragda subjects
Culture + Identity
Education
Family
Music
Sociology
South America
Youth
Keywords
Clips
Festivals
Ventana Sur - Best Film Primer Corte; Mar del Plata International Film Festival; Jeonju International Film Festival ; New Directors/New Films; Uruguay International Film Festival; D´Autor Festival Barcelona -Filmin; Sé_Cine Segovia; Cinemancia Metropolitan Film Festival; Quito Iberoamerican Free Film Festival; Novos Cinemas - Pontevedra International Film Festival; Black Canvas Contemporary Film Festival - Nowadays
DIRECTOR: Malena Solarz
NATIONALITY: Argentina
YEAR: 2021
GENRE: Fiction, Drama, Comedy
LANGUAGE: Spanish
COLOR / B&W: Color
GRADE LEVEL: Middle School, High School, College, Adults
SUBTITLE/CC: AVAILABLE
AUDIO DESCRIPTION: NOT AVAILABLE
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