USA
2015 / WORLD PREMIERE
11’ – IN ENGLISH
Synopsis
An apathetic teenager with sex on his brain decides to ditch school. The decisions he makes culminate into something of a waking nightmare, tearing apart any facade he has put on and revealing his true personality.
Trailer
DIRECTOR: Kevin Phillips
PRODUCTION: Richard Peete - Jett Steiger
SCREENPLAY: Ben Collins - Luke Piotrowski
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Eli Born
EDITING: Ed Yonaitis
SOUND: Colin Alexander
PRODUCTION DESIGN: Evan Schafer
MUSIC: Colin Alexander
CAST:
Tristan Leabu
Esther Zyskind
PRODUCTION
NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH FILMS
Richard Peete
Tel. +1 585 315 9165
richard@neighborhoodwatchfilms.com
CO-PRODUCTION
WAYS & MEANS
Jett Steiger
jett@ways-means.co
CONTACT CANNES
NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH FILMS
Richard Peete
Tel. +1 585 315 9165
richard@neighborhoodwatchfilms.com
Following a wave of films dedicated to the ’80s, Too Cool for School may well be the beginning of a new film era, which chose the « nineties » as their thematic, aesthetic and autobiographical reference. Kevin Phillips’s intention was that of sharing with the viewer a teenager’s experience typical of that decade. And he marvelously succeeds in merging together different aspects of that time: ghosts from Larry Clark’s films meet those from slasher ones. Sexual frustration holes up in a surprising place and it is used as a background.
By Pierre-Simon Gutman
