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Afterschool, made when director Antonio Campos was just 24, concerns an underclassmen at a posh prep school who accidentally captures on camera the fatal drug overdose of two girls, and is tasked with memorializing their lives in a film. Neil Genzlinger at the Times calls it "a slow-evolving tale, especially since Mr. Campos has yet to learn when such gimmicks wear out their welcome and plain-old storytelling is required. But it sure does build ominousness...In truth there isn’t much story here, or much insight either; the kind of alienated teenagers wandering through this film exist in movies far out of proportion to their number in real life. But those with the patience to wait out Mr. Campos’s overindulgences will definitely leave Afterschool unnerved, which is probably exactly what he had in mind."
Click on the film stills above for more on this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which also include The Invention of Lying, Whip It, Zombieland, After the Storm, Afterschool, An American Journey: Revisiting Robert Frank’s "The Americans", Chelsea on the Rocks, More Than a Game, Where is Where?, The Wiz, and Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
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