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NICO AND DANI (KRAMPACK) Send This Review to a Friend
Yet another coming of age story, "Nico and Dani" is a bit better than some as a result of its sincere performances and the innocence at the heart of the growing-up sexual experiences. Teenager Dani (Fernando Ramallo) invites his friend and school chum Nico (Jordi Vilches) to the family summer home on the south coast of Spain when his parents have departed on a trip to Egypt. The boys have the ostensible goal of meeting girls.
This isn't so simple for Dani, who has homosexual leanings, and while Nico is open to some teenage experimenting, this is not where his true orientation lies. Tension is bound to break out between the youths. One of the charming interludes involves an invitation by one young woman to have sex with Nico, although it is only supposed to be a one-night stand, since she already has a boyfriend. The growing pains of the local girls also show up tellingly through their efforts to seem cool.
As directed by Cesc Gay and written by Gay with Tomas Aragay, based on Jordi Sanchez's play "Krampack," there is a refreshing quality to some of the dialogue and the incidents seem more natural than forced. However, this is still merely another example in a long line of such films, and it is not one to set the cinema world on fire. An Avatar films release.
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