Review of Volley

Volley (2014)
8/10
A fine Argentinian South-American oriented dramedy.
22 July 2015
Warning: Spoilers
The young filmmaker Martin Piroyanski wrote and directed this comedy based on his own experience twenties (29 years old). It is a painting quite precise of youth today, including friendship, with and without benefits of sex, free sex without emotional ties, love, drugs (marijuana, basically) and alcohol, etc. and real love also. The casting has some mistakes, probably because of the simple filmmaker friendship with certain players. The first time features (I guess) Justina Bustos, is not as attractive as the screenplay intends and she is a very poor actress. Moreover the "Chino" Darin lacks twice the age of his great actor father (Ricardo) to learn a third of what it means to actually act. Still, thanks to very good script and adept handling of the actors who play very natural the director takes the comedy afloat and one is left with fond memories for quite some time afterwards. They renamed this style as "dramedy," a comedy with features or dramatic touches, a mix of drama and comedy. Best of Movie: Violeta Urtizberea, who besides being very cute and attractive is the best actress for large, along with the director. in fact, I think the friend "femme fatale" should have been performed by her and not Bustos, although it's hard to think who could have done Violeta's own character as well as she did. The music of the film is emotionless and hackneyed in style.
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