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Review
Krámpack supposedly means mutual masturbation, so it goes without
saying that the U.S. theatrical release would be retitled with the names
of the two best friends who shamelessly do so. That said, the film is SO
far removed from the typical American teen fare, like American Pie, that
the unusual degree of friendship between the two boys is but a small
part of the overall European-ness of the film.
The boys have known each other since grade school but are now just past
puberty, and their minds are filled with sex, Nico obsessing about his
Adam's Apple and his need to lose his virginity, and Dani entranced by
his best friend. Dani is just plain sexy, and he knows it. At first it
seems like a collision course, but as might be true for the adolescents
they are, they start and end as friends. Both learn that they can be the
objects of sexual desire -- and the comfort that this brings to a
teenager -- but that their sexual paths are diverging.
The movie is well written and achingly sincere, more so than Trick or
Get Real, both of which had a Fairy Tale (pardon the pun) quality about
them. This film lies closer to the French films Wild Reeds and Full
Speed than these. In Nico and Dani the passion seems real, and there is
sour with the sweet.
The Spanish seacoast location is gorgeous, as are the characters, who
are hardly stereotypes for the most part. The two guys are believable as
16-year-olds (even though about 20).
(Review By
BoD)
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