Junior is a boy with “bad hair”. He wants to have it straightened for his yearbook picture, which triggers a wave of homophobic panic in his hard-working mother. The more Junior tries to look sharp and make his mother love him, the more he’s rejected, until he’s face to face with a painful decision.
A rare example of Venezuelan arthouse cinema, this incisive look at a dysfunctional reality takes the form of a bold coming-of-age tale, tackling sexuality and gender roles in an overwhelmingly macho society. A subtle character study on the outside and an uncompromising country study on the inside.
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