Ended on 10/15/2009
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AFTERSCHOOL -
(unrated)
2009 - USA - English - 107 minutes - IFC Films
Directed by: Antonio Campos
Featuring: Ezra Miller, Jeremy White, Emory Cohen
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 A truly impressive new voice in American indie film, Antonio Campos arrives with AFTERSCHOOL, a riveting look at the dark side of youth in the media age. An official selection of the Cannes, Berlin, SXSW and New York Film Festivals in 2008, this outstanding feature debut was also nominated for 2 Gotham awards including Best Director, and the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature.
Robert is a young American student at an elite East Coast preparatory school. When he accidentally captures on camera the horrific death of two girls, he's tasked with memorializing their lives in a film meant to help speed up the school's healing process. For some, this exercise only deepens the trauma...
NOMINATED - Independent Spirit Award - Best First Feature
OFFICIAL SELECTION - Cannes Film Festival
"An intelligent, often gripping, and intriguingly autobiographical drama of paranoia."
The Guardian UK
"The film has a lot to say about the effect of technology on teenage interaction, how schools repress individuality and how sexual awakening causes, rather than relieves, teenage angst."
Time Out
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