From German director Ilker Çatak, opposites attract coming-of-age film about two late teen boys blunting their passage thru tricky life phases with lots of booze, drugs & last-call parties. One a middle-class German blond (Emil von Schönfels) breaking up with his girl; the other, ethnic-mix dark (Mekyas Mulugeta), breaking away from his unstable, easily addicted single-mom. With school finally over, they’ve made a pact to travel to Turkey where a missing father might be found, but with little thought as to how they are going to go about this. No matter, they’re bound to go, joined at the hip (if these skinny mates had hips!), but in crisis after the blonde kid winds up screwing the other’s mom. Substitution for his pal? (He’ll later have a threesome wet dream about it while earlier in the film, his BFF casually interrupts a session with the girlfriend.) Going anyway, their Turkish adventure quickly pulls them apart (one feels as if he, at last, fits right in/the other always just outside the circle), the boys easy physicality turned bickering bromance. Ilker Çatak doesn’t quite hit the personal growth and revelations he’s shooting for, but sure nails the commonplace reality of how traveling together can overstrain any relationship. The film lands as something of a down payment for better things to come, but there’s plenty to keep you involved.
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