EIGHTH GRADE
An introverted teenage girl tries to survive the last week of her
disastrous eighth grade year before leaving to start high school.
disastrous eighth grade year before leaving to start high school.
Sunday 24 March | Picture House | doors 11.30am; film 12.00pm
Directed by Jo Burnham 2018 | USA | English | 93 minutes | 15+
Multiple award winning directorial debut of Bo Burnham No one likes eighth grade. It’s the compulsory military service of American adolescence, the cod liver oil every child must swallow on her way to adulthood. It’s that pimple-infested, body-odorous, hair-in-uncomfortable-new-places minimum-security prison every girl must endure, the real-life horror movie to which you can’t close your eyes. Worst of all, the scars that happen here are pretty much guaranteed to haunt you for life.
Welcome to "Eighth Grade" kids! Whether it’s been two days or two decades since you suffered through it yourself, your heart goes out to Kayla (Elsie Fisher), the young woman we meet tightrope-walking over those shark-infested waters in writer-director Bo Burnham's remarkable feature debut.
A staggering 76 nominations and 46 Awards
Multiple award winning directorial debut of Bo Burnham No one likes eighth grade. It’s the compulsory military service of American adolescence, the cod liver oil every child must swallow on her way to adulthood. It’s that pimple-infested, body-odorous, hair-in-uncomfortable-new-places minimum-security prison every girl must endure, the real-life horror movie to which you can’t close your eyes. Worst of all, the scars that happen here are pretty much guaranteed to haunt you for life.
Welcome to "Eighth Grade" kids! Whether it’s been two days or two decades since you suffered through it yourself, your heart goes out to Kayla (Elsie Fisher), the young woman we meet tightrope-walking over those shark-infested waters in writer-director Bo Burnham's remarkable feature debut.
A staggering 76 nominations and 46 Awards
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Bo Burnham set out to make a moralistic film with a lesson attached: Kayla doesn’t throw her phone away like some back-to-nature purist. But make no mistake, he is pissed off. “Now we’re all acting like celebrities and commodifying ourselves,” Burnham says. “Kids act like their own publicists. They curate their fucking brands! As someone who had a little bit of a little taste of that as a D-list comedian celebrity, it’s the worst, worst way to live your life.”
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