‘Olmo’ Review: Fernando Eimbcke’s Coming-of-Age Story Strikes a Winning Balance Between Melancholy and Gentle Farce

'Olmo'

Sometimes, at least when you’re 14, the whole world hinges on getting to a party — and the urgency only mounts when life keeps throwing roadblocks your way. For the title character of the low-key charmer Olmo, those roadblocks shape a day of pivotal reversals and revelations, life-changing in the moment, perhaps, but especially in retrospect.

Beginning with his 2004 debut, Duck Season, a quiet fusion of goofy and transcendent, writer-director Fernando Eimbcke has brought…

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