Rating: ★★★★☆ En Tu Ausencia ( In your absence ) is a movie I have heard a lof about before getting a change to get a hold on the DVD and watch it for myself. I have heard all kinds of rumors about it - being the ultimate coming of age movie , powerful tale ,provocative scenes…etc. At the end when I saw it I was mostly impressed with the nature shots and felt a bit disappointed .  The whole movie feels more like a reportage than a film in itself - either that or a documentary. Add the surrealism and the and beautiful visuals and you have a perfect arty festival film- which however won`t be understood by everyone and don`t really have a chance for a commercial success .As I am writing this review I am pausing and watching the directors commentary - its quite comprehensive in fact -  over 1 hour and 40 minutes meaning that virtually the whole movie is commented by Ivan Noel. Some of the interesting things he mentions were that the movie was shot with  ” No budgets , no production help - nothing ” , it had only 2 professional actors in the cast and more over no make up was used at any moment of filming . A film which main idea was ” Covering the grounds of that transition between a childhood and adolescence ” .  As a rite of passage movie En Tu Ausensia did pretty well - even trough I admit that I started to believe more in that after watching it once again with the directors comments - in fact the DVD is worth having just for them . My impression is that Ivan Noel would do a wonderful job directing short movies on the topic and does seem to have a pretty intriguing and truthful views   . ( I have checked some other things written by him online in addition to the film itself )The movie had several scenes ( nudity mostly - nothing that weird for Spanish movie anyway ) that made my mom who was watching it with me shrug her arms. I guess she was thinking that the plot was going in a certain direction - while in fact the story evolved in...