NIGHT SWIM | Omeleto

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Three friends break into a pool. Teenage friends Carson and Becca are enjoying a night out in Rockaway and Coney Island when they're joined by a new friend, Julie. The vibe is loose and fun, except that Carson feels a little left out and threatened by Becca's rapport with Julie, who has the devil-may-care confidence of the archetypal "cool girl." When Julie incites their trio to break into a nearby closed-off pool at night, they encounter trouble, and Carson makes a key decision -- and tells a lie -- that has dark consequences. Director Victoria Rivera -- along with writer Neda Jebelli and producer Camila Zavala -- has crafted a dark, bewitching yet somber take on the teenage coming-of-age story, as well as a knotty portrait of the complexities of young female friendship. Rendered with moody, luminous light and visuals, the intimate, restless camerawork first casts a spell in its evocation of youthful potentiality. The urbane backdrop, with its vivid smears of colors against a rising darkness, summons an almost nostalgic and iconic sense of adventure and restlessness with a poetic immediacy -- a perfect playground for three young women to test their boundaries and expand their sense of possibility. The three friends plunge themselves into this gritty milieu, and played by three excellent young actors, they navigate a thicket of flickering, often contradictory emotions. One minute one of full of bravado; in another, they're uncertain and insecure. They seem simultaneous

Published 2020-03-26 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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