Uncompromising In the winter, this movie is more interesting than in the other season. Warm sea, hot sand, island seclusion, giving free rein to dreams and desires. Self-employed adults and adolescents who have lost parental control. At the table, the companion neighbors discuss the buyer’s lucrative offer, and on the beach, their children seem to spend the last summer in these parts, showing varying degrees of irritation with their parents’ deal and the balance of relations in their divided company, subjected to the tearful action of feelings and new impressions, forbidden desires and morning reflections, sobering after drunken nights.
Crossing out adults, Veronesi shoots only children without lifting the camera above the heads of teenagers, leaving entirely in the frame only the walking youth, beginning to look for and experience a new one, some with doubt, like fourteen-year-old Sandro, maturing in front of surprised friends facing the collisions of transitional age.
The muted rebellion, protest, indignation are the essence of the young man’s individual search, which is akin to the search for his younger brother Gianino, who chooses an animal for his reincarnation in the future life, not yet thinking too much in the sense of the present, over which Sandro does not cease to think imperceptibly for the rest, intriguing the curious Patricia with her behavior.
The guy hesitates, but the girl does not feel his hesitation, she tries to guess, but does not guess, no one knows about his night antics, and he himself does not understand the changes taking place around, regretting something gone and lost, worrying, and not without reason, about himself, beyond the threshold of the coming youth.
A sultry day and night languor, lulling the measuredness of sunrises and sunsets, dreams, hopes and fantasies, the prospect of discoveries and changes, stopped by the suddenness of death, the discouraging ruthlessness to the innocent victim, in the male stubbornness relying on the strength of her own forces, committing the main mistake of her incorruptible youth.