Unmade Beds

(England, 2009, 92 mins)

35mm

Executive Producers: Peter Carlton, Lizzie Francke
Producers: Soledad Gatti-Pascual, Peter Ettedgui
Screenwriter: Alexis dos Santos
Cinematographer: Jakob Ihre
Editor: Olivier Bugge Coutté
Cast: Deborah Francois, Fernando Tielve, Michiel Huisman, Iddo Goldberg, Richard Lintern

Intimate and immediate, Alexis dos Santos’ second film surges with the energy of the new wave—both the music and the French film movement—as it follows two twentysomethings adrift in London’s vibrant East Side scene. Axl, played with sleepy, sheepish charm by Fernando Tielve, has come from Spain to track down the father who abandoned him. Meanwhile, Vera, a Continental waif nursing a broken heart, tentatively begins an affair with a stranger, but only if he agrees to some unique rules of engagement.

Working in the same vein as his debut film Glue, dos Santos has crafted an engaging art-rock portrait of being young and in and out of love. Much has been made of dos Santos’ ability to vividly capture the look and feel of unfettered youth—the energy of the scene, the cutting edge music, the casual sexuality, the hipster sense of humor—but there’s also a gentle romanticism that runs throughout his work, a yearning for true love that is all the sweeter for being just a touch naïve, but absolutely sincere.

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