Afterschool

Young and Out to Redefine What’s Real

“AFTERSCHOOL,” the debut feature of Antonio Campos, a 25-year-old New Yorker, unfolds in the cloistered environment of an elite boarding school, though it is perhaps more relevant to say that it takes place within the brave new world of digital information overload. Shot mainly on old-fashioned celluloid but fluent in the language of viral video, the film combines the timeless bewilderment of adolescence with a very contemporary recognition that for many of us — not least adolescents — reality is now largely a virtual experience. [...]

di Dennis Lim, articolo completo (6491 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 5 ottobre 2008