Am Ende der Kindheit (2015)

Am Ende der Kindheit: Directed by João Salaviza. With David Mourato, Maria João Pinho, Rodrigo Perdigão, Cheyenne Domingues. A visually intense and poetic coming-of-age film portrays the fourteen-years-old David who is forced to become the man of the house while his grandfather lives his last days in hospital.

“Unfortunately, Portuguese cinema is still dominated by this sort of movies. There is an interesting setup and characters but then nothing happens for the whole movie and the story just ends abruptly. To be clear, what I mean by u0026quot;nothing happensu0026quot; is not that there is no action, I know Iu0026#39;m not watching transformers here. What I mean is that, unlike, say, a Bergman movie, there is no story, no character development and nothing similar to an interesting dialogue. The acting is wooden not because the actors are bad but just because there is nothing to act.nI really wanted to like this because, again, there is an interesting setup here, and the potential to illustrate some pressing social issues. But then nothing happens. Too bad.”