‘Diciannove’ Review: A Vivid, Humane Evocation of What It’s Like to Be 19 Years Old, With the World at Your Feet and Over Your Head
variety.comGuy Lodge Film Critic Nobody talks much about the age 19. It doesn’t come with the exciting avalanche of adult rights that come with turning 18, or the milestone symbolism of 21.
You’re technically still a teenager but don’t feel like one; nonetheless, the looming onset of your twenties is daunting, as if a chapter of your youth is about to close.
It’s a corridor age, in other words, and Leonardo, the oh-so-19-year-old protagonist of Italian writer-director Giovanni Tortorici‘s exceptional debut feature “Diciannove,” is feeling its transitional, overlooked, neither-here-nor-there angst.
As Leonardo stumbles through his first year of college, chasing some clear idea of who he’s supposed to be, the secure floor of childhood falls away beneath him, while adulthood hovers tauntingly out of reach.
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