NY Times: The 9 New Directors You Need to Watch BEACH RATS The centerpiece film, Eliza Hittman&rsquo
NY Times: The 9 New Directors You Need to Watch BEACH RATS The centerpiece film, Eliza Hittman’s second feature, could be described as a coming-of-age story set in an ungentrified section of Brooklyn. The plot more or less follows the conventions of the genre, tracing the emotional, sexual and ethical confusion of a young man (Harris Dickinson, who has a sensitive face and piercing blue eyes) toward a crisis that seems at once shocking and predetermined. But as a visual, sensual experience, Ms. Hittman’s film, shot in 16 millimeter on summer nights around Coney Island, Brooklyn, is something more intriguing: a lyrical, impressionistic plunge into a world defined by longing, anxiety and accidental beauty. (A. O. Scott) Read more at the NY Times. -- source link