replete with sometimes startling imagery (the removal of sand from an eye), "Suntan" captures a set of specific feelings: the exhilaration and embarrassment of falling, followed by the desperate denial that one has landed in a very bad place
lacking the more capricious nature of some of those earlier cited films, Suntan's somewhat predictable spiral into misery-by-way-of-toxic-masculinity nonetheless offers a few distinct aspects of note