![]() ![]() She does a remarkable job of making the familiar seem different. He’s another left turn Craig throws our way that prevents “The Edge of Seventeen” from falling too deeply into cliché. You want her to snap out of her doldrums, and sometimes you want to shake her by the shoulders and tell her to get over herself.īut Bruner knows a better way. But Steinfeld makes her suffering real - and the slivers of hope that show up in her life from time to time believable. ![]() Good thing, too, because in lesser hands Nadine would be insufferable. MORE AZCENTRAL ON SOCIAL: Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Pinterest A real-life teacher would probably get canned for his behavior, but what Bruner - and Craig - realize is that this is exactly what Nadine needs to get through whatever rough patch she’s in. Their back-and-forth is the best thing about the movie. Then he cuts through her self-pity with a lacerating comment or two of his own. Bruner listens to it all with something approaching bemusement, though that would require a little more seeming interest on his part he acts as if he can barely be bothered. Bruner (Woody Harrelson, fantastic), her history teacher, who she not so much confides in as threatens and berates. A good decision, however, is Nadine’s visit to Mr. Nadine gives Krista an ultimatum: Choose him or choose me.Īn ill-advised text message to Nick sets a series of bad decisions in motion. Her best friend and her mortal enemy (at least that’s how she sees it). Then one night, when her mom is off on a weekend jaunt to meet a guy, Nadine drinks too much and passes out, while Krista winds up with Darian. Nadine's got one friend, Krista (Haley Lu Richardson). Her mother Mona (Kyra Sedgwick) is lonely and vulnerable. Now a high-school junior, she’s grown up in the shadow of her perfect brother Darian (Blake Jenner). We learn in flashbacks that she was never exactly the picture of happiness (often comically so). But a lot of her troubles are self-inflicted. Nadine (Hailee Steinfeld) has suffered tragedy in her life, and that doubtless colors her cynical, pessimistic worldview. “The Edge of Seventeen,” Kelly Fremon Craig’s compelling coming-of-age movie, is different. In “The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” Charlie is repressing dark episodes from his childhood. In “Sixteen Candles,” Sam’s parents have forgotten her sixteenth birthday. Typically the protagonists in these sorts of films carry extra baggage in addition to haywire hormones and the world being against them. If it weren’t, they wouldn’t keep making so many movies about it. Watch Video: Haley Lu Richardson talks to Goodykoontz about "Edge of Seventeen"
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |