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‘Olmo’ Review: Plan B’s Splendid Coming-Of-Age Story Of Mexican-American Family Comes At The Right Time — Berlin Film Festival
A review of 'Olmo' premiering at Berlin Film Festival and focusing on the coming of age of young Olmo torn between family and simply being a kid
The latest from director Fernando Eimbcke( Duck Season, Club Sandwich) is not inherently political at all, but this beautifully written and acted period film set in 1979 is coming at a perilous time for immigrant families in America and so it is hard to watch it and not get angry at the way their lives are being upended. Olmo is being stretched thin and finally takes matters into his own hands, goes out and fixes his mother’s broken down car, is joined by Miguel on a joy ride, as well as delivering on his promise for the stereo at Nina’s party where the boys put on a show with their best John Travolta dance impression to the soundtrack of Saturday Night Fever. Eimbcke, working from a finely tuned screenplay he wrote with Vanesa Garnica, is not reinventing the wheel of coming-of-age tales, but focusing his camera, simply and without melodrama on a family that might seem familiar to anyone.
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