El inicio de Fabrizio
2015 · 16m · Argentina
Directed by Mariano Biasin
Genres: coming-of-age, drama, romance
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tender
In a small town one summer, Fabrizio and Nadia are boyfriend and girlfriend, both crossing the dizzying beginning of adolescence: what happens after falling in love and before growing up.
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It's competent coming-of-age work, sure, but Biasin isn't subverting the form—he's genuflecting to it. Give me the film that makes adolescence *weird*, not just wistful.
Biasin locates himself squarely in the European coming-of-age lineage (Vigo, early Haneke) and executes with formal restraint and compositional clarity—the kind of patient, observational work that respects both the tradition and the specificity of this Argentine summer.
The film's restraint is its strength, but it's the sound design—that particular hum of small-town inertia, the way silence becomes its own presence—that transforms what could be routine adolescent ennui into something genuinely felt and specific.