Director Alexis Dos Santos stressed improvisation, and his scenes have a lingering emotional rawness, but the handheld camera work left me feeling as woozy as the characters appear to be.

| Feb 25, 2010

Light and entertaining, if a little clunky at times.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 11, 2009

An easy-going, garrulous, likable piece.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 11, 2009

A keen, scruffy, colourful and buoyant film.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 11, 2009

It's refreshing to see a film about youth that doesn't resort to the clichés of drug abuse gone wrong. While its lack of narrative thrust can render it a little too loose for its own good, Unmade Beds still manages to charm and entice.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 11, 2009

You could call the film either fresh and charming or hopelessly second-hand. There is, indeed, something there. But not much.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 11, 2009

Rumpled, vague and possibly a bit whiffy.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 11, 2009

This atmospheric indie made by Argentine writer/director Alexis Dos Santos is fun and quietly irreverent but it's not hugely romantic.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 11, 2009

Overly familiar but endearing nonetheless, this coming-of-age indie from Alexis Dos Santos is most likely to appeal to those who recognize themselves in the story's lost heroes.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 4, 2009

A lovely, somewhat messy movie about lovely, messy young lives.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 3, 2009

The conventions of contemporary youth culture and cinema could both use a change of sheets.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 2, 2009

Despite some missteps (a parachute metaphor is particularly belabored), the film has an intoxicating quality.

| Sep 1, 2009

Unmade Beds, with its occasionally twee chronicling of pogoing in funny hats and heart-to-hearts between NSA lovers, portrays its seekers as planets aspiring to bubblehood, or at least one tandem leap into the void.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 26, 2009

Has a lively, romantic spirit that recalls the playfulness and spontaneity of the French New Wave.

Full Review | Jan 30, 2009

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 16, 2009