Just got back from this, Gia Coppola, (James Franco backed) directed, adaptation of his autobiographical memoirs from a few years back. Emma Roberts, Franco, Val Kiler in a small but hilarious role….And some relatively unknowns who are amazing in their roles….Theres a lot of familiar themes here, from movies like 'The Spectactular Now', 'The Perks Of Being A Wallflower'
Timeless themes of adolescent angst, sexuality and it's consequences the dysfunction of life as an adult and teenager, alcoholism, the underside of suburbia, all things we have seen before, but Coppola does a masterful job capturing it, the liquor passed around at parties in suburban houses with absentee parents, making out on the couch, awkwardness of sex and sexuality as a teenager, the absurdity of adolesence itself….She creates a real tense, dirty, manic and unpredictable environment stained with the undeniable ugliness of life…I really liked it, very well done soundtrack too. Hits a few strokes too broadly, and some could have been subtler…But, a genuine movie, not cute or nice, but will capture you in it's nostalgia, as you remember your high school crushes and sex in someones parents bedroom, and leave you with a bittersweet certainty about life, hints of hope and connection in a maze of ugliness and dysfunction, the life often is, in high school and now. Easily one of the more striking movies I've seen this year.
Timeless themes of adolescent angst, sexuality and it's consequences the dysfunction of life as an adult and teenager, alcoholism, the underside of suburbia, all things we have seen before, but Coppola does a masterful job capturing it, the liquor passed around at parties in suburban houses with absentee parents, making out on the couch, awkwardness of sex and sexuality as a teenager, the absurdity of adolesence itself….She creates a real tense, dirty, manic and unpredictable environment stained with the undeniable ugliness of life…I really liked it, very well done soundtrack too. Hits a few strokes too broadly, and some could have been subtler…But, a genuine movie, not cute or nice, but will capture you in it's nostalgia, as you remember your high school crushes and sex in someones parents bedroom, and leave you with a bittersweet certainty about life, hints of hope and connection in a maze of ugliness and dysfunction, the life often is, in high school and now. Easily one of the more striking movies I've seen this year.
I'm going to check this out. I like a good, racy indie flick.