Unmade Beds (2008) NYT Critics' Pick

[lsanderson]

Déborah François and Fernando Tielve in “Unmade Beds,” the second feature from the Argentine director Alexis Dos Santos.
Looking for a Way In (and Out)
By MANOHLA DARGIS
Published: September 2, 2009

The two people drifting through “Unmade Beds,” a lovely, somewhat messy movie about lovely, messy young lives, cross paths only twice. The first time, Axl (Fernando Tielve), a transplant from Spain by way of myriad anonymous flops, is walking out of the sprawling London squat he unknowingly shares with a Frenchwoman, Vera (Déborah François). He’s wearing her striped school jacket, which he retrieved from the kitchen where she had abandoned it. Axl is looking for someone, and Vera wants to lose someone else, though of course because this is about a pair of fledglings, they are also looking for themselves. More