AcnéA mischievous comedy about boys growing up in a Jewish family, Acné will either infuriate audience members with its hormonally-charged plot, or send them gasping for breath as they laugh at this clever satire.
At thirteen, young Rafa Bregman has just celebrated his Bar Mitzvah, and is poised precariously between youth's clumsy innocence and the expectations of manhood. Yet none of this seems to matter as much to Rafa as kissing a girl for the first time.
He and his well-off family are part of the close-knit and at times suffocating Jewish community in Montevideo, but his bad skin, divorcing parents and the difficulties he has talking to girls make his rite of passage feel like an impossible task. As his dysfunctional family structure shifts, and his friends change, some leaving for Israel, time begins running out for this free-wheeling youngster.
Acné is a charmingly nostalgic look at the tiny battles of youth and the joys that come in between as a boy awkwardly makes his way toward what it means to be a man.
