If you were a teen in the 2000s, you would like this very beautiful American movie

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California, summer of 2008. At the age of 13, Chris, Alia the Great, grew up between the two worlds. At home, we speak Chinese and respect the customs, under the supervision of Mother Chungsing; Outside, it is the kingdom of freedom, skateboarding, friends and first emotions. For Chris, this summer will be all the experience, as if to say goodbye to his childhood.

A time capsule

If you follow the American Press Cinema of 2024, at the end of last year, you can arrest the title: Great. Four letters for the film that are nowhere to be found in France and without the slightest date of the hexagonal release, despite the dead Champs-Esées film festival last year, when he doubled at the Sundance Festival (jury and public prize), where some independent nuggets are identified (you are talking about sex or volies). Rewards (best scenario and first film).

But here is the first sale of Sean Wang. In the middle of the summer, which is very relevant, because it is during this period that Chris is being told, for whom these holidays point to the end of the era, as it must enter high school when leaving his sister’s house for learning. The main moment of his life as an American teenager of Chinese descent, nicknamed Wang Wang by his friends, who will also live in his first flirtation and approach him with a group of senior skater.

According to this, you may have the impression that you have already seen this movie and it is not entirely fake. But should the work be unprecedented and innovative to be successful? Especially since it is a great power to tell us things that we have not only seen but also the experience. Anyone who has been a teenage or young adult around August 2008 will have no problems in some of the situations of this story that is happening during the development of youtube when creating a Facebook report was a real social step that we published everything and everything in the social networks and that many social interactions received.

Like her skaters, she finds a very beautiful equilibrium between universal and intimate story that will talk a lot, and her director Sean Wang will be very personal, who explained that biographical elements in the story (or her grandmother in the role of Chris), who was not autobiographical in 2008.

Peppy today, is it necessary tomorrow?

Image formats alternate with the Fisheye lens for sliding scenes or reproduction of Youtube video features of that time when the exchange is not just on a computer screen that occupies the whole frame, the director drives us in a funny, moving and sunny time capsule. Anyone who is associated with adolescence and skateboarding is reminiscent of Jonah Hill’s 90s, but it seems that Sean Wang knows this and provides this instruction as he names the bridge between his film and his film Supergrave, a comedy that revealed a future director.

Going to Didi’s discovery theaters is more than recommended and not just for independent American film or skateboard lovers. Beyond the sincerity he tells this story, Sean Wang manages to cope with his various objects (identity, adolescence, love, family …) with quite precision, so that this story speaks to everyone, the flavor of the nugget that can become the flavor of the coming years.