At camp – an unlovely institution called God’s Promise – Cameron Post (Chloe Grace Moretz) soon falls in with the cool kids, Adam Red Eagle (Forrest Goodluck) and the saucy, improbably named Jane Fonda (American Honey’s Sasha Lane). Akhavan carefully reconstructs 1993 – a Breeders tape here, a Clinton-Gore bumper sticker there – without fussily festooning the film with period details. Moretz, Lane and Goodluck are outstanding as the three chums at the heart of the picture, who, in time, prove far wiser than all of their adult carers. Taking cues from Akhavan’s delicately poised, observational humour, Ashley Connor’s cinematography gleams from where there ought to be gloom. Following the director’s overlooked 2014 debut, Appropriate Behaviour, this exquisite, bittersweet sophomore effort announces Akhavan as a major talent.

Source: The Irish Times September 04, 2018 16:12 UTC