4/28/2023 0 Comments Selah and the spades![]() This isn’t 1990s teen angst, it’s Gen Y stress. ASKA’s atmospheric score and Jomo Fray’s trippy visuals create a strange sense of unease, reflecting the adolescent anxiety that powers the drama along. There’s something of the dreamy realism of Sean Baker’s The Florida Project or Desiree Akhavan’s The Miseducation of Cameron Post here. Both charming and callous, Selah walks the fine line between being feared and loved, often cutting loose whomever she. Why is Selah and The Spades rated R The MPAA rating has been assigned for teen drug content, and language. At the head of the most powerful faction THE SPADES sits Selah Summers. Brief glimpses of her home life – “What happened to those three points?” asks her mother, upon learning of a 97 per cent result in a trigonometry test – hint at the causes of Selah’s self-sabotaging desire for perfection. Five factions run the underground life of the prestigious Haldwell boarding school. Worse still is Selah’s inability to be second best. All in favor of the ware proposal raise your hand. Don’t you dare tell me I don’t make sense when you are the damn reason we are in this situation. The efficient and loyal Paloma seems like the ideal candidate to take over the Spades, but the group’s enemies are circling. This story isn’t about the factions, it’s about her, Selah Summers. In the closed world of an elite Pennsylvania boarding school, Haldwell, the student body is run by five factions. Enter Paloma (newcomer Celeste O’Connor), a scholarship student who develops a deep bond with Selah, one, to use her phrasing, that leaves one wondering if she is in love with Selah or if she wants to be Selah. Seventeen-year-old Selah Summers (Lovie Simone) runs the most dominant group, the Spades, with unshakable poise, as they cater to the most classic of vices and supply students with coveted, illegal alcohol and pills. ![]() Twenty years from now people might look back to this as 2020’s most accurate depiction of. The film opens, as so many high school movies before, with an overview of the various factions at an exclusive boarding school.Īlongside right-hand man Maxxie (Moonlight’s Jharrel Jerome), Selah (Greenleaf’s Lovie Simone) runs the Spades, suppliers of drug and alcohol across the campus, with an iron hand.Ĭharming, charismatic, and not above ordering violence against those who would cross her, Selah, who is in her senior year, is desperate to find an heir. Emphasizing Selah’s discovery that cliques are kinda dumb and that her actions have consequences, Selah and the Spades loses momentum, despite a witty framing device that places characters as tiny figures in the school’s vast, empty rooms. After it premiered to no little fanfare at Sundance last year, Amazon Studios scooped Tayarisha Poe’s excellent debut feature for distribution and further development of an original series based on the same story.
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