TWO FRIDAY FLICKS EACH MONTH!

2nd  Friday Dramas PLUS 4th Fridays Documentaries & Docudramas!!!

All movies start at 7 p.m. at the Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship,

Florida Avenue and State Road A1A, St. Augustine Beach

Fri,  Jan 13, 7 pm,

"Submarine"

A nice boy with sex much on his mind (2011)

From Roger Ebert  (June 8, 2011)

Craig Roberts, who plays Oliver Tate, the hero of "Submarine," looks a lot like the very young John Lennon: fresh and hopeful, with the soul of a poet and the self-importance of — well, of a teenager who struggles under the weight of his virginity.

Oliver seems to be the author of "Submarine," his own biopic — sometimes literally, sometimes more in the way its tone evokes his preoccupations. Sex is much on his mind, but he sees himself as too serious and cultured to seek it in vulgar ways. True, he rather mistreats Jordana Bevan (Yasmin Paige)….but Jordana understands this, and a great many other things about adolescent boys.

"Submarine" isn't an insipid teen sex comedy. It flaunts some stylistic devices, such as titles and sections and self-aware narration, but it doesn't try too hard to be desperately clever. It's a self-confident work for the first-time director, Richard Ayoade, whose purpose I think is to capture that delicate moment in some adolescent lives when idealism and trust lead to tentative experiments. Because Craig Roberts and Yasmin Paige are enormously likable in their roles, they win our sympathy and make us realize that too many movies about younger teenagers are filtered through the sensibility of more weathered minds.

Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship of St. Augustine, Intracoastal A1A and Florida Ave., St. Augustine Beach See www.imdb.com for more reviews.

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