Friday 8 February 2013

Rewatch: Fast Times at Ridgemont High

dir. Amy Heckerling
USA, 1982

This was the first of the new season at film club - teen movies, a season Al is suspicious of, though he chose this. When I saw it before, I was quite shocked at how seriously it pitched itself, stemming from the scriptwriter Cameron Crowe's underground reportage etc. That serious intention and the shock of serious - yet still recognisably "teen" - treatment still affects. It holds up well.

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