In this 2023 Australian film, we follow Kol (Elias Anton), an introverted boy with a passion for dance who, upon receiving an emergency call from his best friend Ebony (Hattie Hook), abandons his plans to participate in the finals of a competition to travel to another city and look for her.

He contacts Adam (Thom Green), Ebony’s older brother, and asks for his help to hit the road in search of the girl.

During this trip, we can watch two strangers get to know each other better through dialogue, music and jokes.

Of an Age is good?

This film is not for everyone. However, I do not say this to imply that you need to have a higher intellectual level or a high IQ to understand the story, but rather because the film has an extremely slow pace, which can bore many viewers.

If for Adam and Kol everything happens in 24 hours in the first act, for us things happen very calmly. After all, when Adam tells Kol that he has an ex-boyfriend, Kol is still digesting things about himself.

In addition to the dialogues, many of the things here are portrayed in the absence of words.

Details such as the duration of a look, the flexing of a muscle, the direction of the camera that guides us along the same path as the eyes of one of the characters.

Everything is designed in a way that makes it clear to us what is happening, without having to verbalize it.

And if these subtleties are already enough to make the film special, when the actors are able to verbalize their “feelings,” the acting is done in such a natural way that it makes us share this feeling and almost live that moment with them.

A hug here symbolizes a great act of courage. And with so much symbolism, everything gains an even deeper layer, especially because of the way this film is directed by Goran Stolevski.

With the end of the first act, we are transported from 1999 to 2010. Here, Kol is already mature, confident in his identity and sexuality. Adam is also even more determined and certain of who he is.

Two people who fell in love and loved each other in a short period of 24 hours are now strangers, they know little about each other, but they still share the same affectionate look for each other, the same concern.

If the first part of the film already causes intense emotions, these final 30 minutes are crucial in the sensations they want to extract from us.

The script is also accurate in leaving the ending open to the viewer’s imagination. We want more, we want them to be happy and, if the film does not provide us with these scenes, we are in charge of imagining them.

In Conclusion

Of an Age is a sweet, romantic, painful film to watch and that can hit “close to home” for anyone who has ever lost a love due to life’s unavoidable circumstances. It is the dialogue between our brain and our heart in a scenario full of “what ifs”.

A film that draws on the plot of “the right people at the wrong time”, who were meant to be together, but life wanted to go the other way. All of this bathed in self-discovery, in the struggle to understand who you are and who you love.

It makes me happy to see that when poetry and cinema intersect, it is possible to obtain works with such meaning, impact and beauty.

Although it is not available on any streaming platform in Brazil, it is worth playing and enjoying this beautiful film.

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