Winter Boy (2023)
Winter Boy
”A 17-year-old high school student in the city faces challenges of death, life, and temptation.”
Trailer
Plot summary
A 17-year-old high school student trying to get to grips with the new challenges posed by death, life, the city and "the temptation of renouncement".
To share
Do you want to watch something different?
Watch full movies now!
Press play and be surprised!
Where to watch?
From the same director
On a Magical Night
Richard and Maria are in crisis. The couple, brilliantly portrayed by Chiara Mastroianni ('Persepolis') and Benjamin Biolay ('Personal Shopper'), spiral into a series of accusations, sorrows, and finger-pointing. After all, he discovers that Maria is being unfaithful, sleeping around with younger guys. He, meanwhile, swears up and down that he is faithful. From there, inventive filmmaker Christophe Honoré ('Love Songs') begins to follow his wife to a hotel room, right across from their home. There, through interesting visual interventions from the director and a narrative that provokes and intrigues, with a strong psychological aspect behind it—after all, in this hotel passage, Maria looks at herself and her life with a confident gaze with the viewer, almost as if she were winking at the audience. It's not Honoré's best film, but it will certainly please those looking for a good romantic dramedy from France, as only the French can do.
Drama
Raspberries with Mustard
Meeri Ehrlich, 13 years old has three problems. First: She is in love - with the wrong person - and has butterflies in her tummy. Second: Her mother passed away and she misses her a lot. Third: her father - owner of a funeral home - is looking for a new partner. But Meeri has something that is only hers, something very special - she can fly.
Underdog
In its effort to raise awareness about the precarious social reality of certain sectors of the population, Mexican cinema tends to fall into miserabilism (or so-called "poverty porn"), whether in documentaries or fiction. The quest of Mexican cinema for new creative and narrative horizons is ongoing, and in the case of Underdog (Correr para vivir), director and co-writer Gerardo Dorantes opts for what, in its conventions, is an action and crime thriller extrapolated to the context of the Rarámuri (or Tarahumara) indigenous people of northern Mexico, famous for their running tradition (and their extraordinary talent for it). The plot follows two brothers: Omero (Vladimir Rivera), who dreams of being a runner; and Capó (Manuel Cruz Vivas), who is more talented but also troubled. Both are dragged into a life of service to the drug trade when Capó, in an attempt to provide for his pregnant girlfriend, fails in a cocaine delivery. To be honest, it's a good attempt to steer Mexican cinema towards other directions that are not the typical exploitation of social dramas or anthropological documentaries. However, the film ends up falling into the same vices, representing Rarámuri culture from a superficial and idealized exoticism, creating entertainment from a real social context with little sensitivity.
Downtown Owl
'Downtown Owl' - Searching for a break from her cosmopolitan life in Milwaukee, Julia Rabia (Lily Rabe), arrives in the closeknit Reagan-era town of Owl, North Dakota for a one-semester high school teaching job. But when the small town turns out to be a wonderland of second-string poets, smoldering Marlboro Men, and a social hierarchy that echoes high school, Julia doesn't know if she's come to town to get away from home or to find it. Ed Harris, Vanessa Hudgens, Henry Golding, and Finn Wittrock also star in this Great Plains dark dramedy directed by Lily Rabe and Hamish Linklater. Based on the novel by Chuck Klosterman.
Baby
After his release from a juvenile center, Wellington finds himself homeless in São Paulo. At a porn theater, he meets Ronaldo, who mentors him in street survival. Their bond evolves into a turbulent affair.
