The Third Side of the River

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A slightly dark coming of age story from Argentina. It's very slow paced and takes the majority of the running time to figure out just what they are trying to get at with this one. We follow Nicolás, the eldest son of a divorced couple. He's being forced to grow up and take on responsibility pretty quick which leads to some drastic behaviour for the finale. I really liked all that stuff but the groundwork that had to be laid to get there was hard to get into. It works slowly though and you eventually sympathise with this kid, who barely says anything.

It was a bit of a hard slog at the beginning, especially because I was pretty tired but once I got to the third act and the pieces slowly come together it was far more satisfying.