Rating:
15
DVD/BD Release Date:
30th September 2013 (UK)
Director:
Jordan Vogt-Roberts
cast:
Nick Robinson, Gabriel Basso, Moises Arias, Nick Offerman
Buy:
The Kings of Summer [Blu-ray]
Kings of Summer has became the surprise critics darling of the 2013 summer period. It premiered at this year’s Sundance film festival under its original name “Toy’s House”. Britain’s best film critic Mark Kermode made a video blog about how it caught him by surprise when he attended a screening. It actually got pushed back a couple weeks because the critics responded so well to it.
The story is a pretty simple story a teenager called Joe Toy who doesn’t really get on with his dad and him and 2 other friends decide to build a house to live in the woods. They don’t tell their respective parents where they are going and it’s becomes a media sensation in the town. It’s a coming of age story with a real heart and at times darkness which is extremely rare.
It’s reminiscent of films like Stand by Me, Breaking Away and even to an extent the much-underrated Youth in Revolt from a few years ago. It mixes comedy and drama and in this case quite broad comedy, which isn’t always successful but it does have a handful of laughs. It does however work it’s charm on you and you do really care about the boys. It’s not quite as good as those other films but it’s a remarkable little gem.
It’s got a interesting use of music, it starts with the Thin Lizzy song “Cowboy Song” and also used MGMT and somehow it works. Kings of Summer is beautifully filmed by Ross Reige who is definitely a cinematographer to look out for. It has great use of slow-mo and not as cliché that is very refreshing. It’s the director, writer and cinematographer’s first film that is astonishing cause it’s such a self assured piece of work.
It got a limited release in August but it’s out on Blu-ray and Dvd at the tail end of September and it’s really worth checking out.
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