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I'm starting this blog with a film review. And oddly enough, it's not one of those inspiring grandiose films, but the humble teens one intitled Youth in Revolt, aka Be Bad!
Let me begin with the formalities, Youth in Revolt is directed by Miguel Arteta, starring the promising and quite active Michael Cera and Portia Doubleday. Its US release was January 8th, 2010 and its French release (since I live in France) was September 1st, 2010.
Now the interesting part, this film is a lecture on how to make yet another film about teens summer crash, without repeating all those stereotypes we all know of and have seen a million times on television or in theatre.
I loved the refined choices of romance, comedy and teenager mind introspection scenes without going too deep into any of them. Maybe what sets this film apart is the exchange between Nick and its alter-ego François. Probably all teenage boys have had that rebellious voice in their heads (doesn't make them schizophrenic hopefully) and I loved the way it was portrayed on screen.
A special note should also be made about the refreshing, British-like, absurd, sense of humour (cf. the scene where Nick dumps his father's car into a river).
All in all this is a quite enjoyable film, worth watching and The Architect* definitely recommends it for your light Saturday afternoon screenings with friends !
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*please note the unprecedented use of the third person to talk about myself...
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