Beach Rats

Beautiful small-scale character drama. The narrative progresses with a masterful fluidity, a symptom of it being a series of moral crises and character-defining decisions. There are so many qualities to this that suggest it was crafted by a gifted director - lack of suffocating score, expert casting, lived-in roles, authentic setting, weighty atmosphere. You take it seriously without it asking you to take it seriously.

A New York summer has rarely felt lonelier and bleaker than in BEACH RATS. Eliza Hittman's atmospheric filmmaking makes everything--the block, the house, an identity--feel like a prison for the movie's closeted protagonist. It also carries a lunkheaded verisimilitude that mirrors the blankness and indecisiveness of youth, where everything feels so lively and new yet, in retrospect, was mostly a slow burn of wasted time.

Haunting, low-key character study is beautifully understated and perfectly captures the aimless, seedy milieu of Dickinson's blank-slate late teen. A lack of major dramatic fireworks may be frustrating at times, but Hittman seems more interested in the minutiae of daily life - creating a real feel for the sights and emotions driving her protagonist. A worthy and memorable addition to the 'coming of age' canon.

A beautifully made character study.

Viewed April 28, 2017.

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Yeah, not a whole lot happens in Beach Rats but the music and performances are both good enough to at least make this a pretty good flick. I wasn't bored at any point, which is kind of surprising when I think back about what exactly happened and how it unfolded. I enjoy the ending, however, it was pretty beautiful.

ah. I cant believe the cinema has come to this. If anyone picks up a handycam and goes filming the little beetle in the garden for an hour, compared to this movie, it would be worth watching. at least the beetle may have a plot for his actions.

The acting is a bit lame, thus it did not capture the otherwise beautiful story. It also failed to create a memorable climax. The actors seem to be too far out that you can't feel them. My SCORING: 99-96=Great; 95-90=Very good; 89-85=Good; 84-80=So-so; 79-70=Boring; Below 70=Forget it.

The characters are recognisable, though I'm not sure they needed the dying dad, and the lead actor's expressions run all the way from sullen to moody, but it all feels a little amateurish.

A solid character piece with very naturalistic performances by its young cast (consisting mostly of actors I hadn't seen before).

A whole lot of nothing happens, although the performances are mostly good.

There's this thing that indie movies with small budgets do, where they drag out their runtime with lots of nothing, attenuating whatever emotional resonance they may have. Congrats, you made a sponge cake with not enough icing. Do you think this dry brick is worth eating, let alone baking? Nice electrosynth soundtrack, though—so nice that I bothered to track it down, which I virtually never do.