George Washington
David Gordon Green - US - 1999 - 89m - 35 mm - drama
In English
David Gordon Green's impressive debut--expertly shot in glorious widescreen--is a thoughtful and stunning portrait of a small group of kids in a rural South Carolina town as they struggle to balance relationships, ambitions and the realities of life and death. The film is seen through the precocious eyes of Nasia, an 11-year-old girl, who leaves her boyfriend Buddy for the titular George, a boy burdened by the fact that his skull hasn't hardened since birth. When one of the group is accidentally killed, the "I cannot tell a lie" mythology of the first US President becomes an ironic counterpoint to the friends' shared guilt.
Courtesy of British Film Institute
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