Hawaii
[Palm Springs International Film Festival 2015 report]
A young writer alone in a house and its grounds, working on his novel. A handsome young homeless handyman, the writer’s childhood friend, looking for work. One summer in the Argentine countryside. Will they or won’t they? It takes a maddening two hours of breathless anticipation to get to the heart of HAWAII (the title of this Spanish-language idyll serves perhaps as shorthand for the hesitancy and uncertainty of possible romance that’s the crux of the film). But it’s poetically beautiful getting there. –YSM