Paranoid Park (2007)

Highly Recommended

USA/France
Feature Film
Director: Gus Van Sant
Writers: Gus Van Sant, Blake Nelson
Cinematographers: Christopher Doyle, Rain Kathy Li
Cast: Gabe Nevins, Daniel Liu, Taylor Momsen, Scott Patrick Green, Lauren McKinney

Van Sant’s beautiful, dreamy, hypnotic, and sensual adaptation of Blake Nelson’s novel, an exploration of a young skater’s attempts to deal with the memory of a tragic accident and the guilt and fear involved with it, also manages to affectingly examine the universal difficulties inherent to the transition from boyhood to manhood. Iain Stott