This is a lovely movie about a transition to adulthood. Martin goes through the typical elements of it including friendship, love, sex, death, and seeing his father and other adults as people with flaws and weaknesses. He experiences his first romantic disappointment and takes in a lot of experience to process but keeps going. As an American, I kept waiting for the things that might typically happen but the movie never strayed into the trite. It's amazing in its running time how many characters that we get to know. Part of me wants to see more but part of me loves the feeling that we are left with, not of resolution but of Martin greeting the joys and challenges of adulthood and the sense that he's going to be just fine.
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