Late Summer Blues
Neutral, steady, measured drama / coming-of-age, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →A group of close friends celebrate the bittersweet changes coming to their lives during the summer of their high-school graduation: adult responsibilities, adult romance -- and the soberingly adult fact that some of their number are being drafted into the Israeli army. This has very much the feel of a high-school beach-party movie -- with music, and in Hebrew -- until a sudden and disturbingly realistic reminder of their own mortality finally slashes through the kids' cheerful, close-knit obliviousness.
Our read · Late Summer Blues (1987) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded drama · coming-of-age · war entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Late Summer Blues
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“You want Israeli teens squeezing joy from their last summer before the army.”
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