The battle lines of territorial masculinity are drawn with compelling psychological complexity in Summer White, in which a 13-year-old boy impatient to become a man grows increasingly hostile to the presence of his single mother's new partner in their lives. Mexican director Rodrigo Ruiz Patterson establishes a domestic situation of almost unhealthy mutual emotional dependency and then ruptures it with the arrival of an outsider whose kindness and generosity make him even more of a threat. This taut first narrative feature is virtually a romantic-triangle scenario, its heat, anger and hurt persuasively played by a fine trio of actors.
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- 1/26/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The battle lines of territorial masculinity are drawn with compelling psychological complexity in Summer White, in which a 13-year-old boy impatient to become a man grows increasingly hostile to the presence of his single mother's new partner in their lives. Mexican director Rodrigo Ruiz Patterson establishes a domestic situation of almost unhealthy mutual emotional dependency and then ruptures it with the arrival of an outsider whose kindness and generosity make him even more of a threat. This taut first narrative feature is virtually a romantic-triangle scenario, its heat, anger and hurt persuasively played by a fine trio of actors.
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- 1/26/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Los Cabos — The first scene of the first feature from Mexico’s Rodrigo Ruíz Patterson sets up the whole drama: Adolescent Rodrigo flicks on his cigarette lighter to see his way down a passageway, knocks on his mother’s door, says he can’t sleep. She lets him in, he clambers into her bed.
“Blanco de verano” (“Summer White”) – a title taken from a tone of paint used to redecorate the house – is not an incest story. It does point up, however, the dangers of a fragile emotional dependence which a loner son in a one-parent family has on his mother.
When his mother’s boy friend moves in, and sidelines and subjugates Rodrigo with his every action, the young son fights back with seething violence, an attempt to make his own home in an abandoned trailer, and incremental acts of arson, a cry for his mother’s attention.
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“Blanco de verano” (“Summer White”) – a title taken from a tone of paint used to redecorate the house – is not an incest story. It does point up, however, the dangers of a fragile emotional dependence which a loner son in a one-parent family has on his mother.
When his mother’s boy friend moves in, and sidelines and subjugates Rodrigo with his every action, the young son fights back with seething violence, an attempt to make his own home in an abandoned trailer, and incremental acts of arson, a cry for his mother’s attention.
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- 11/18/2019
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
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