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- Two things inspired James Ponsoldt to direct and co-write Summering, his newest movie about a group of adolescent girls who discover a dead body under a highway overpass. The first was the discovery of an actual dead body not far from his home; the second was a desire to have more pre-teen coming-of-age films to show his daughter.
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Aug 11, 2022 · Two things inspired James Ponsoldt to direct and co-write Summering, his newest movie about a group of adolescent girls who discover a dead body under a highway overpass. The first was the discovery of an actual dead body not far from his home; the second was a desire to have more pre-teen coming-of-age films to show his daughter.
Aug 12, 2022 · Best known for darker dramas like "Smashed" and "The End of the Tour," he explains why his kid-focused "Summering" fits with his themes.
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The vast majority of great coming-of-age movies are centered on boys (from The 400 Blows to George Washington), producing a disparity in perspectives. There are of course masterpieces about girls' coming-of-age, but for every one of those, there have seemingly been 50 about boys', at least until recently. Enter Summering, a tender variation on Stan...
There is no monolithic absolute truth about parenting; difficult subjects and tough talk depends on context, and everyone handles it differently, something Summering is adept at displaying. "With Summering,it started with a dead body. There was a man found dead not far from where I live, an older man who could not be identified, and he still hasn't...
Of course, a man's good intentions of creating a story about female experiences from girls' perspectives is, by definition, thwarted by blind spots. This is why Ponsoldt not only drew from his experiences with all the women in his life but also ran everything by them along the way. Summeringwas, in a sense, guided by a surfeit of women whose input ...
Ponsoldt drew from all this to create a learned reflection authentic to the spectrum of girls' experiences, with a variety of themes. "How they remember their childhoods and the raw reliability or unreliability of their memories was important," said Ponsoldt, "and the differences between female friendshipand male friendship at that age and, and kid...
He recognizes that there have been some great titles in recent years, but, "In many other ways, I think there are lots of marginalized groups that are not being represented, but also, I don't think representation is enough," said Ponsoldt. "It's a deep desire to understand how they think. We need multiple subjectivities in films if we're going to u...
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Aug 11, 2022 · In “Summering,” a meditative coming-of-age film by James Ponsoldt (“The Spectacular Now”), four 11-year-old girls living in suburban Utah are suddenly confronted with the realities of the ...
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Aug 12, 2022 · In Summering, James Ponsoldt ‘s return to cinema following several years of episodic television work, four young girls, best friends about to enter different junior high schools, find their final moments of group bonding upended by a shocking discovery: a dead body.
Aug 10, 2022 · Summering, by writer-director James Ponsoldt and co-writer Benjamin Percy, attempts to capture the intangible passage from young girlhood into preteen adolescence—and in terms of mood, their...
Aug 12, 2022 · Summering really stems from conversations between parents and children, trying to understand where they’re each coming from—not always successfully, but still trying. There’s a longer...
