Saturday, June 17, 1:00 pm, Roxie + streaming encore
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| Girls Don’t Cry |
Ele is 19, living in southern Italy, still reeling from the loss of her father and determined to fix up the family’s broken-down camper van. Mia buttonholes a friend to help Ele get the camper van working, but then suddenly needs to get home to Romania as quickly as possible, with Ele her only hope. Thus begins a spur-of-the-moment road trip, with plenty of new people and wild adventures along the way, but also plenty of secrets threatening to crash the party. Both young women seem to be incapable or unwilling to put any real thought into the practical realities of a 2,000+ kilometer journey in a gas-guzzling camper van that is well past its prime, to say the very least.
I didn’t find the main characters very relatable, and several bits of the plot felt contrived or heavy handed. It’s not a terrible way to spend a couple of hours, but the best I can give it is “meh.”
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