TERMINAL YOUNG
dir. Lucía Seles, 2023
Argentina. 128 min.
In Spanish with English subtitles

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3 – 10PM
MONDAY, OCTOBER 7 – 10PM
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16 – 10PM
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24 – 10PM

“A light-eyed man who, thanks to his best friend, is an accountant at a tennis complex, rebels against the universe and himself and becomes an accountant at a flower shop.”
– Lucía Seles’ synopsis

Picking up a year after the first three films in the tetralogy, Terminal Young is set largely during Sergio’s birthday party at a roller rink. Organized by Sergio’s mom, the party is filled with random guests invited by Manuel including a real estate agent and a young blonde choir boy Manuel met at a terminal, nicknamed The Terminal Young. A mix of screwball tensions and awkward miscommunications, Seles finishes off her series in true style i.e. randomly, chaotically, irreverently, and hysterically. Do the romantic tensions established in Smog in Your Heart ever get resolved? Do the characters ever morph out of their bizarre and highly specific archetypes? Does Lujan ever make it to Lujan? See the movie and find out, but for anyone already keen to Seles’ relentless inventiveness, you may already know what sort of odd dramatic teases could be in store.