2017 Directed by Sean Baker
The story of a precocious six year-old and her ragtag group of friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of adventure while the adults around them struggle with hard times.
Willem Dafoe Brooklynn Prince Bria Vinaite Caleb Landry Jones Valeria Cotto Christopher Rivera Macon Blair Karren Karagulian Sandy Kane Carl Bradfield Sabina Friedman-Seitz Gary B. Gross Aiden Malik Sonya McCarter Mela Murder Josie Olivo Rosa Medina Perez Jasineia Ramos Kit Sullivan Patti Wiley Jason Blackwater Jim R. Coleman Kelly Fitzgerald Krystal Gordon Betty Jeune Joanne Moreno Lauren O'Quinn Edward Pagan Samantha Parisi Show All…
american honey jr
(but i also don’t wanna minimize this with a joke because??? it made me feel every emotion at once for a full 115 minutes)
100
Me before my second viewing of The Florida Project: "I probably won't cry this time."
Me after my second viewing of The Florida Project: "THE ENTIRETY OF MY FEELINGS HAVE MELTED AND GONE INTO MY SOCKS!"
Really responded to the spatial maneuverings this time around - how around every corner is an adventure and a surprise, even though it may be a horrifying sight.
Sean Baker's TANGERINE follow-up is an absolute barn-burner, brimming with life and noise and neglect and an all-timer of a performance by Willem Dafoe. Baker definitely finding his groove... endlessly smart move to flip the script on his breakthrough and apply the same energy to a gorgeously shot 35mm slice of Americana that reeks of POST TENEBRAS LUX for a reason. A movingly episodic story of the "missing homeless" living week-to-week in a godawful motel just outside of the Magic Kingdom, the film builds a remarkably comprehensive portrait of life on the margins - and the systems & cycles that keep people there.
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"The cinematic landscape has barely recovered from 2015’s vivid IPhone odyssey Tangerine. Seemingly summoned from the brightest rays of Hollywood sun, Sean Baker’s Christmastime portrait of working girls brought vérité texture to frequently marginalized people and landscapes, invigorating unseen American corners through truthful emotional dynamics, empathetic depiction, and a startling, visceral jolt to independent aesthetic. And just while we’re getting back up, he drops this on us, and it’s a doozy. The Florida Project, Baker’s newest endeavor (opening in limited release on October 5th), evolves his successes into the realm of fantasy."
Sean Baker has a new movie, and of course, it's the best of the year. Without a fucking doubt.
Read why!
the most American
film of the decade??
I've been transformed
back into a small child.
listen after this movie i want to go to florida more than anything and i simultaneously viscerally never want to go there
The tagline for this movie reads "Find Your Kingdom." Despite the poverty and destitution that surrounds these kids, they treat their environment as their Magical Kingdom. There might be the famous one close by that kids across America dream of, but this one is all their own.
Cast in a lush color palette akin to the colors often used for kids toys, drenched in humid Floridian sunshine, and surrounded by the hum of helicopters, cars and nature, we are dropped into a section of truly marginalized society. There's prostitution, drug deals, fights, hardship and heartache, but those moments intertwine with beautifully human ones. Kids sharing the wonder of their world together, people helping strangers through the hard times, and THE…
Someone let Sean Baker direct every film from now on starring Brooklynn Kimberly Prince.
The free rolling nature of the editing only helps to put us in the mindset of being a carefree child in the middle of summer, but that same editing helps to bring us back to reality, and how as adults struggling to make ends meet people must go through the same monotonous struggles day after day.
Baker has a knack for showing stories of the underrepresented without feeling like he is pandering. Like Tangerine, The Florida Project, is heartbreakingly honest which makes the inevitability of the plot all the more potent.
Wonderful performances all round and the added pleasure of turning up at the last minute with little expectation of enjoying it.
The script was tight, even though the cast were able to improvise and the subject matter is very close to my heart since moving home.
One of my favourite films of last year was Andrea Arnold’s American Honey due to its portrayal of youth with nothing to lose getting caught up in the whirlwind of life’s madness and all its beauty and sadness and now Sean Baker has given us what felt to me like a spiritual prequel that portrays the bright and colourful personalities which exist amongst a community that most of us ignore and who have exponentially fewer and fewer opportunities to escape.
Sean Baker films our subjects with a kind of neorealist edge and manages to walk the line so masterfully between being both starkly realistic and beautifully cinematic at the same time.
The performances are flawless, especially from the ridiculously young…
An above average movie with great acting that shits the bed in the final minute. Seriously, it's like the writer didn't know how to end the movie and said "eh, this'll work". It's so weird and out of tone with the rest of the film.
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