By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Alika Tengan
Starring: Jordan Cheng | Joshua Co | Lisette Marie Flanary | Reanna Barboza | Tyler Ebisuya
Country: united_states
Year: 2022
Running time: 81
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt16378396/reference/
Chris says: “It feels too easy to label this as ‘Hawaiian Mumblecore’, even if that’s exactly what it is. The backstory is more interesting: Director Alika Tengan developed this around the real life circumstances of its star, Naz Kawakami, a young radio DJ/skateboarder who plans on moving from his hometown of Honolulu to New York City with his girlfriend who has been accepted into art school there. Although fictionalized and a bit heightened, it attains the looseness it aims for, coming off as an insider’s portrait of an urban area that just happens to be in Hawaii.