A hopelessly overblown melodrama, which oversteps its mark with pretensions of narrative complexity and social currency

[Perelman] over-explains everything at the end with a montage of repeated scenes that ensures you never need see this film more than once.

Ambition and accomplishment are aeons apart in this would-be meaningful drama.

Some viewers will find the film's dreamlike mood overly arty and precious, but I was moved by its depiction of lives held in the balance on the cusp of adulthood.