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Me & Earl & The Dying Girl comes highly recommended from Sundance Film Festival, Rotten Tomatoes, tonnes of reviewers, and this bloke that I met down the pub the other day. We looked into it, and you know what? They’re all totally correct.
The heartwarming, awkward, emotional and hilarious story centres around awkward teen movie buff Greg, and his best mate/co-filmmaker Earl. They find out a girl from their school, Rachel, has leukaemia – and the story of friendship rolls from there. There’s like, a thousand reasons why you should see this beautiful, funny, scary, important film.
But here’s just five o’ them:
Reason #1
As we mentioned before, it comes highly recco’d from the Sundance Film Festival. The film premiered there, won the Grand Jury Prize, and received a standing ovation. And these film buffs know their shit, y’know?
Reason #2
It’ll appeal to your inner photographer, if that’s your thang. While the plot of M&E&TDG is about coming of age, leukaemia, and friendship, it’s also about love for making movies, and the filmography largely stands on it’s own as something to celebrate. The composition and love for beautiful filmography will appeal to the ~IG aesthetic blogger~ buried deep inside of you.
Reason #3
Nick Offerman. If you need more reasons to see a film other than ‘Ron Swanson is in it’, then you need to reevaluate your perspectives.
Reason #4
Melbourne International Film Festival had M&E&TDG on their program, and Melburnians who managed to see it were frothing hard. At the Sydney Film Festival, Sydney-siders also frothed to their hearts content. You too, could froth that hard.
Reason #5
Olivia Cooke, who plays Rachel (A.K.A. ‘The Dying Girl’) has received a shitload of praise and critical acclaim for her performance. Considering how young she is, and how heavy her character’s situation is – she’s nailed it.
But if these five reasons aren’t enough for you: if you like your films to balance between hilariously funny and serious IRL youth issues, then PEDESTRIAN.TV advise you book free tickies to these special screenings immediately, in either Melbourne or Sydney.
