Jone, Sometimes
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Playing in Sydney exclusively at Golden Age
Overview
An authentic and tender coming of age story, Jone, Sometimes focuses on a young woman in Bilbao during the Aste Nagusia, a weeklong festival of parties, music and fireworks at the height of Basque Country summer. Jone (Olaia Aguayo) is twenty years old and at a crossroads: her beloved father Aitor (Josean Bengoetxea) has been diagnosed with early-onset Parkinson's and forced to retire from work, so Jone is pushed into parentification for both him and her younger sister Marta (Elorri Arrizabalaga). At the same time all she wants is to work at the festival, figure out her life, party with her close-knit circle of friends and pursue a romance with enchanting older artist Olga (Ainhoa Artetxe).
Why See This Film
The debut film from Basque director Sara Fantova is richly evocative of her home country, filled with the ecstatic and chaotic spirit of the Assumption of Our Lady's festivities. Newcomer Olaia Aguayo is extraordinary as a flawed and sympathetic young woman really going through it- not always likeable but forever moving forward through the rollercoaster of first love and the pain of familial loss. The lesbian romance that forms an important thread of the story is intimate and extremely real, handled astutely by both director and cast in a way rarely seen in cinema.
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