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Social “gentrification” as defined, clinically and dispassionately, on Wikipedia: Teles starts from this information, adding a fine touch of irony. Her aim is different: to observe what such social displacement of individuals and families (thanks to tourism) feels like from the inside, as lived experience. Especially when you are a teenager, when constant change, mobility, and transience are the norm. A fragmented, not-quite-narrative snapshot-chronicle of Vicente and his friends in Porto, this refreshing, lively film has a Leos Carax ambience, bouncing between worry, anger, and youthful energy. (Viennale)