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A Few Feet Away review – Buenos Aires slacker tries to balance app life and real sex in vivid hookup drama
Tadeo Pestaña Caro’s debut feature trails a young man’s compulsive screen time and his panic when faced with real intimacy In the age of online hookups, signals of attraction – once felt in a significant look or a brush of the hand ...
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Tadeo Pestaña Caro’s debut feature trails a young man’s compulsive screen time and his panic when faced with real intimacy In the age of online hookups, signals of attraction – once felt in a significant look or a brush of the hand ...
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According to The Guardian’s source item, A Few Feet Away review – Buenos Aires slacker tries to balance app life and real sex in vivid hookup drama, Tadeo Pestaña Caro’s debut feature trails a young man’s compulsive screen time and his panic when faced with real intimacy In the age of online hookups, signals of attraction – once felt in a significant look or a brush of the hand – are now transmitted by way of screens. Laying bare the gamification of dating, Tadeo Pestaña Caro’s probing debut follows 20-year-old slacker Santiago (Max Suen), lost in a cycle of thwarted desire in Buenos Aires. Whether at his dead-end job at a call centre or lying awake in bed, he is glued to his phone, hungrily swiping through various dating app profiles. A sea of naked torsos and bulging crotches surge across his screen, each promising a passionate encounter and perhaps something more. Caro’s film captures this obsession with striking psychological precision. There’s a paradox to Santiago’s compulsive behaviour, which is at once all-consuming and distr
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