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"Two boys refreshingly not riven by angst fumble their way through
testosterone and sexual awakening to
a happy self acceptance and friendship"
When Nico's parents go on a summer trip, he stays at their beach front house alone with his childhood friend Dani, a lanky, cocky fellow. The two enjoy their liberty, meet some girls, go swimming, and talk about sex during their nightly krampac (joint masturbation) sessions. Krampac is a word coined by the playwright Jordi Sanchez in his original play of the same name and hence the title of the movie. Their friendship starts showing some wear and tear when it becomes clear that the object of Dani's burgeoning sexual longings are the girls, while Nico is mostly interested in Dani.
Against ocean sunsets and the Spanish landscape, we watch these adolescents come to grips with what they want, and what they can get. They buy condoms, they smoke some dope, they go to beach parties, they even try to drug an unsuspecting girl with sleeping pills. All of this is served up with the right mixture of knowing and nostalgia. It just might remind you of long-forgotten make-out sessions on some parents' couch in a not uncomfortable way. Based on a play by Jordi Sanchez, director Cesc Gay manages exactly the right tone.
The movie's success is especially amazing in the light of how much could have gone wrong. Coming-of-age-in-the-summer movies tend to produce a prefabricated aftertaste. The gay subject matter as well as the straight sex could have been exploited, over dramatized, or screwed up in a million other ways. Ink has been spilled over the film being "uncompromising" and "disturbing," but there is a difference between frankness and exploitation. The honesty here is reassuring and touching rather than off-putting. "Krámpack" gets the balance exactly right. The film is light, but not slight, a little miracle of handling a delicate topic with great deftness and care.
Fernando Ramallo, who plays Nico, is a hot commodity in Spain, and it's easy to see why: he oozes a peculiar kind of confidence and independence that makes it hard to take your eyes off him. Jordi Vilches' Dani, a hyper kinetic joker who's just figuring out what to do with all that testosterone, is the perfect foil for him. In fact, all the characters are a delight, and maybe that's part of the movie's secret: there are no villains in it, nobody is to blame for the things that go wrong, and everybody deserves our attention. It's rare that something so generous and smart flickers over the screens.
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Film Information: 'Krampack ~ Nico and Dani'
Web: Additional Cast, Details and Bios at IMDb
Director: Cesc Gay
Writers: Tomás Aragay & Cesc Gay & Jordi Sanchez (play)
Full Credits: Full Cast, Crew & Credits
Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Awards: 10 Wins & 9 Nominations
Runtime: 91 minutes
Spoken Language: Spanish | Catalan | English
Subtitles: English .srt file
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Film Clip: 'Krampack ~ Nico and Dani'
Download & Extract Film Files: 'Krampack ~ Nico and Dani'
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| Method 1.) File Self Extraction. (For PC) Download files into the same folder. then click on the 'xxxx.part01.exe' file and the film will self extract. (For Mac) You will need a Command Line Archiver like Rar for Mac OS X' |
| Krampack.part01.exe Krampack.part03.rar Krampack.part05.rar Krampack.part07.rar | Krampack.part02.rar Krampack.part04.rar Krampack.part06.rar Krampack.part08.rar |
| Method 2.) Download and rejoin files with a program like HJ Split/Join (For PC) and (For Mac) use either MacHacha or Split and Concat. |
| Krampack.avi.001 Krampack.avi.003 Krampack.avi.005 Krampack.avi.007 | Krampack.avi.002 Krampack.avi.004 Krampack.avi.006 Krampack.avi.008 |
Subtitles: Download English .srt file
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