Frameline43 Film Review: “Family Members”
Gay teen Lucas and his older sister Gilda haven’t gotten along for years, but they are reluctantly journeying together to the family’s beach house to remember their mother, who has recently died. Determined to pay their last respects and be gone by morning, the two soon find themselves marooned in the sleepy Argentinian coastal town by a bus strike. Now stuck indefinitely, the siblings become embroiled in their rocky reunion, struggling to leave the past behind while facing an uncertain future. Director Mateo Bendesky’s bittersweet and funny coming-of-age tale is refreshingly original and touching, as his two remarkable young actors […]