A teenage summer in a small town in the desert, a dysfunctional family, a rock band, a can full of glue, two boys, one girl, loads of tongue kisses, dry heat, wind in Patagonia, existential angst... A teenage story in the middle of nowhere.
Acting
Nahuel Pérez Biscayart's feral vulnerability
Cinematography
Dust and skin filmed like it's holy
Direction
Dos Santos lets teens actually behave like teens
Director
Alexis Dos Santos
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Dos Santos cast non-professionals from Buenos Aires and let them improvise dialogue, shooting chronologically so their actual sunburns and exhaustion became part of the film.
Released during Argentina's post-crisis 'New Argentine Cinema' wave, Glue captures a generation with no economic future and nothing to do but each other.