Afterschool (2008)

Highly Recommended

USA

Feature Film

Writer/Director: Antonio Campos

Cinematographer: Jody Lee Lipes

Composer: Rakotondrabe Gaël

Cast: Ezra Miller, Jeremy White, Emory Cohen, Michael Stuhlbarg, Addison Timlin, Rosemarie Dewitt, LeeWilkof, Paul Sparks, Bill Raymond, Gary Wilmes, Christopher Mccann

A lonely teenaged boy, who has just started at a new co-ed boarding school, witnesses, whilst filming B-roll footage for the AV club, the drug related deaths of a pair of popular, 18-year-old twins, and is subsequently tasked with making their memorial video, in Campos’s sharply and uncompromisingly drawn examination of angst and alienation in the YouTube generation, which all serves – although I may be alone here – as a 9/11 allegory (fallen twins, loss of freedoms, casual accusations of guilt, and all). Iain.Stott