FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE Submarine 

Craig Roberts, who plays Oliver Tate, the hero from Submarine, looks like a young poet: Curious and self-important. But he is also a young teenager, still virginal and insecure. Oliver fits like a glove to the film, which strikes a typical British note. It was shot in Swansea, Wales. Sometimes I thought Oliver himself was the author of his own biopic (the film and the leading actor fit together so well!). Oliver's beloved is called Jordana Bevan (Yasmin Paige). Jordana knows that very few teenagers have what it takes to be a self-confident leader, while all the others doubt themselves for the rest of their lives. Jordana is not particularly beautiful, and she has as little sexual experience as Oliver. In contrast to him, however, she is self-confident. Oliver also supervises his parents. His father (Noah Taylor) looks like an aging hippie, his mother (Sally Hawkins) like a housewife in search of meaning. Oliver knows everything about her sex life because he inspects the light buttons in the house: Bright light: No sex. Matt light: Sex. Usually the light is bright. The mother meets the self-proclaimed mystic Graham Purvis (Paddy Considine), who makes spiritual speeches in a kind of village disco. Oliver suspects his mother of having a relationship with the weirdo. He also wants to have sex with Jordana! Fortunately, Submarine is not a bland teen sex comedy. Debutante Richard Ayoade filmed the whole thing in this egocentric style, which likes to play around with intertitles or such tricks, just to freeze the picture. However, you have to give him credit for the fact that he doesn't desperately try to be especially clever. Submarine captures exactly those delicate moments in life when idealism and trust flourish for the first timid experiments. When Jordana and Oliver kiss, it actually seems as if they are doing it for the first time. Craig Roberts and Yasmin Paige are really adorable in their roles, so you almost forget how tasteless many teen movies are! Submarine looks fresh and real, as if it were made by real teenagers! Not by the blunted perspective of an adult trying to remember - Submarine is adolescent in the best sense of the word!