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Film Discussion => The Vault => Topic started by: wilder on June 03, 2017, 05:10:45 PM
An aimless teenager on the outer edges of Brooklyn struggles to escape his bleak home life and navigate questions of self-identity, as he balances his time between his delinquent friends, a potential new girlfriend, and older men he meets online.Written and Directed by Eliza Hittman (
It Felt Like Love)
Release Date - August 25, 2017
Shot on 16mm
Blu-ray (https://www.amazon.com/Beach-Rats-Blu-ray/dp/B0751TLZ96?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-081-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B0751TLZ96&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER) on November 21st
This movie is something special. Hittman is the female director's name I want to hear thrown around more often. This perceptive review (https://letterboxd.com/amandaayoung/film/beach-rats/) on letterboxd says more than I could if I tried.
Pretty girls drink for free.
Edit - in her interview with MoMA, Hittman said that Beach Rat's single source frontal lighting style was inspired by the photographs of Barbara Crane, as well as Philippe Grandrieux's White Epilepsy (2012)
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