Beach Rats
First screened in August 2017
Director: Eliza Hittman. Cast: Harris Dickinson, Frank Hakaj, David Ivanov, Anton Selyaninov, Madeline Weinstein, Kate Hodge, Nicole Flyus, Neal Huff, Harrison Sheehan, Douglas Everett Davis, Erik Potempa, Gabriel Gans, Kris Eivers, J. Stephen Brantley, Lila Golubitskaya, Jason Kaminsky, Valentin Ospirov. Screenplay: Eliza Hittman.

Twitter Capsule: Dickinson's a find. Hittman gazes with pungent intensity. Still wish she'd devised a fresher trajectory for this story.

VOR:   Not quite as novel as first impressions suggest, despite potent performances and style. LGBT cinema has been to many of these places before.



Photo © 2017 Neon/Cinereach/Animal Kingdom

Not yet reviewed in full. Grade: B


Awards:
Sundance Film Festival: Best Director (Dramatic)

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