Elizabeth: Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays a high schooler trying understand his girlfriend's disappearance. Film noir style with excellent dialogue. Ian: Murder mystery from the perspective of an oddball kid in high school. All of the evidence seems to point him back to one person in town. Karch: A new-age noir film follows a high-school detective trying to unravel what happened to his ex-girlfriend through the mysterious underground drug ring at his school.
Synopsis
After a phone call from his ex-girlfriend, teenage loner Brendan Frye learns that her dead body was found. Vowing to solve her murder himself, he must infiltrate high-school cliques that he previously avoided. His search for the truth brings him before some of the school’s roughest characters.
A really fun, cool, slightly goofy, yet classy reimagining of the noire genre made by the guy who made that one space film recently. Dramatic, anime-influenced, occasionally clunky, but that’s just part of of the fun. Pretty enjoyable film.
Fantastic, one of my favorites. I watch this at least once a year.