2018 Directed by Terry Chiu
This is people hanging around a lemonade stand but instead of lemons it’s mangos. This isn’t some lyrical expression of their aimless, longing-filled youth. At Mangoshake, alternate perspectives of angst will collide—with that a chance at some humility and actual connection.
Matias Rittatore Chloe Yoshino Lemay Corrina Fisches Adrian Vaktor Ray Arzaga Jessica McKnight Sermed Al-Chalabi Jessie-Jamz Ozaeta Michel Backady Ian Sheldon Matthew Parizot Jancie Creaney Demo Kioussis Philip Silverstein Sammy Halimi Tiago Mc Nicoll-Castro Lopes Thomas Remillieux Brandon Gear Melanie Zuckerman Robyn Barnes Jade Legault Monika Bicarova Michel Choquette Alon Azimov
See you never
"If you got back all the time you wasted, would you waste it?"
Maybe the ultimate articulation of high school—and especially the last summer of high school (and especially the last summer of high school when you live in a huge suburb that requires a car to navigate meaningfully, and even if you have a car you can't really do anything because you're a teenager)—as a horrible and confusing purgatory that feels like dead air before you either justify all your bullshit or you accept that nothing had more meaning than as necessary steps in transition.
"Look I'm an old blind man named Nancy and I've been waiting here with a bunch of mangoes—you know what an asshole that makes…
This is the still the best movie I've seen all year.
And now you (yes YOU) can see it for all its glory yourself, if you so desire.
On Sunday July 12th at 5:45am GMT+10—which is 3:45pm for GMT-4 (New York), 2:45pm Saturday for GMT-5 (Chicago), 12:45pm Saturday for GMT-7 (Los Angeles), and 8:45pm Saturday for GMT+1 (London)—I'm showing Mangoshake as part of an overnight marathon in Static Vision's wonderful and FREE festival Hyperlinks Online, along with a Q&A with writer/director Terry Chiu and executive producer/festival programmer Peter Kuplowsky.
In my opinion, this is could be the ground floor for the next wave of indie cinema, incorporating a lot of modern digital aesthetics while moving completely in its own rhythms.…
haven't been this excited about an emerging filmmaker in so long. as others have said, this feels like the start of something new: talking purely form, this is cut together with so much vigour & digital invention, and alongside don't let the riverbeast get you!, it’s distilled in me a passion to direct that i haven't felt in years. by criticising the coming of age film and depicting transitional angst in chiu's very distinctive (loving, goofy, and subversive) way, out emerges something so stifled and destructive. archetypes run rampant and try their best to express themselves before it's time to move away. then, in using artifice to get to someplace real, we reach the climax, which alone proves that this is vital independent cinema.
This film is now available exclusively on Blu-ray from GOLD NINJA VIDEO with a heatstroke load of...
SPECIAL FEATURES
✓A feature-length audio commentary track by Writer/Director Terry Chiu and Producer Peter Kuplowsky moderated by me.
✓The Extended Heatstroke Edition of Mangoshake.
✓An experimental feature-length audio commentary track by Terry Chiu on the Extended Heatstroke Edition of Mangoshake.
✓Behind the Scenes Featurette
✓Deleted Scenes
✓Short Films by Terry Chiu
✓Film Festival Introductions
✓Liner Notes by Terry Chiu
✓Heatstroke (Emphasis on Stroke): An Audio documentation of cast and crew’s psychological deterioration (with pictures)
✓See You Never: The Music of Mangoshake: On exclusive Portable Compact Disc!
Buy yours now before it's gone forrreeeevvvvvvveeeerrrrr.
Just like your favorite summer.
"If you got back all the time you wasted, would you waste it?"
The great unbecoming-of-age film. The realisation that all those promises of that definitive transformative moment will never manifest in the nowhere towns of the outer suburbs, so you need to do dumb shit and say dumb shit to fill the void.
All manifest in raging nonsense and inane recklessness that's absolutely inconsequential when committed against a backdrop of power lines, green yards and empty streets. Dead air punctured by confused teens hurling their geography, traversing the faceless identity of the suburban maze in search of an unknown meaning.
Chiu initially contrasts the unravelling absurdism of teenage angst with quiet moments of introspection, only to reform the dynamic.…
If Thomas Pynchon wrote a coming-of-age novel set in Canada and then the characters from the novel adapted it into a movie, the result would be MANGOSHAKE.
has the potential to be the catalyst for a new wave of independent cinema if more people see this
the first great digital film
What The Film Festival (or the weekend where I handed out 5 stars like candy) 2018 - Day 1: Mangoshake
Mangoshake, the hilarious and anarchic debut from Terry Chiu, labels itself as 'the death of the coming of age suburbia film' and if it succeeds in sending the sub-genre to the grave then it was a heck of a killing.
Mangoshake follows (or sometimes doesn't) the exploits of a bunch of teenagers and an odyssey which is focused around running an alternative fruit based drink stand. We're taken through the trials of friendship, a ghost pepper eating psyche-out, an encounter with a mysterious Mango dealer named Nancy (played by the filmmakers drama teacher, I believe), a karaoke style teen summer…
The coming-of-age film without the pre-packaged nostalgia, filtered through the lens of The Vine Generation.
A wild ride of a film.
"DO YOU THINK ABOUT HOW EVERYONE CLAIMS TO FEEL ALONE YET THEY CAN'T SEEM TO CONNECT THROUGH THAT"
Well shit, the greatest midwest emo album ever recorded happens to be a film.
"Ghost peppers!?"
"WHY IS IT SO HOT?"
"CAUSE GHOSTS EAT THEM!"
A hyperactive mix of humor, pathos and what the fuckness, blended together into a hot summer smoothie. Seemingly off the cuff, and at the same time intricately constructed, with its caffeine fuelled camera aesthetic often giving way to introspective moments of teen angst specific to its actors (who sometimes break character caught in the moment) that echo with universal loneliness. It's the kind of film that wrings meaning out of a protagonist suddenly showing up with a big o'le fake beard and a southern accent.
It will be every teenager's favorite film of all time.
Or as my 35+ year old friend said: "I kinda liked it...but...It made me feel...It made me feel very old."
Gloriously anarchic amateur comedy with genuinely moving moments of insight and introspection.
Watched on the jam-packed Gold Ninja blu-ray!
