Beach Rats R

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  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 39 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: November 21, 2017
  • Originally Released: 2017
  • Label: Universal Studios

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Rating: 3/5 -- Writer-director Eliza Hittman's Beach Rats is a Brooklyn-set coming of age story made with a gritty lyricism bound to provoke comparisons with the work of French director Claire Denis. Full Review
Independent (UK)
Nov 22, 2017
[I] has a look nailed down: skillfully filmed on Super 16mm by the French cinematographer Hélène Louvart, with a mise-en-scène of underlit, disorientingly snap-shotted body parts...
A.V. Club
Aug 23, 2017
[Eliza] Hittman has created a poignant film about the yearning frustrations of identity that is well worth a watch. Full Review
Screen Queens
Oct 7, 2019
This is achingly delicate psychological territory, heavily dependent on just the right actor to make flesh its scripted subtleties -- and Hittman has found him in Dickinson...
Variety
Jan 23, 2017
4 stars out of 5 -- BEACH RATS has a woozy, lugubious atmosphere that’s unique, with French cinematographer Hélène Louvart shooting the whizzing dodgems and smoke-filled parlours in hazy 16mm, with an eye for the peculiarly melancholic.
Empire
Nov 24, 2017
3.5 stars out of 4 -- [A] potent blend of eroticism, pent-up feelings and good old-fashioned appreciation of beauty.
RogerEbert.com
Aug 25, 2017
Rating: 4/5 -- The 16mm photography is haunting and lustrous. It has the benighted grain of the world we knew before it went digital. Full Review
Financial Times
Nov 22, 2017

Product Description:

A sexually confused teenager named Frankie (Harris Dickinson) uses the Internet to seek out men for late-night encounters as his relationship with an attractive young woman (Madeline Weinstein) flounders. Meanwhile, he begins to rely on drugs to deal with his feelings regarding his repressed sexuality and his father's terminal illness. Directed by Eliza Hittman.

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  • UPC: 191329035450
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