Comparisons to Francis Ford Coppola’s The Outsiders can’t
be helped with the period American setting, coming of age storyline,
young cast and aspects of gang violence, but that’s as far as the
similarities go with exploration of masculinity replaced with a look at
the female struggle of the 1950s. Palme d’Or winner (Entre Les Murs)
Laurent Cantet adapts Joyce Carol Oates tale of female empowerment,
teen angst and communism encapsulating the spirit and the political mood
with pulpy being replaced by poetic. The setting, clothes and the
girls’ mannerisms feel appropriate for the time but sometimes the female
camaraderie and interactions just don’t sit right. Staying close to the
source material delivers the message clearly but it gets bogged down
with an overly long running time of 143 minutes that ends like a bad
biopic.
You can read my full review over on Cinetalk
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