We’ve already seen the trailer and one small photo from Mike Goldbach’s “Daydream Nation” and now many more images have arrived via the TIFF site.
‘Nation’ is the debut feature film of Goldbach, a Canadian filmmaker known for co-writing Don McKellar’s second feature film, “Childstar.” The picture, called a “provocative yet humorous romance,” stars Kat Dennings, Reece Thompson, Andie MacDowell and Josh Lucas. The synopsis and more photos after the jump:
A young woman (Kat Dennings) is uprooted to a small town where her classmates seem permanently stoned, an industrial fire burns in the background and a killer preys on the populace.
Only sixteen years old, Caroline Wexler is facing a teenager’s nightmare: her widowed father has moved from the city to a tiny, nowhere town where the major tourist attraction is an industrial fire that seems destined to burn forever and everyone under the age of nineteen is permanently stoned. Concocting new ways of getting high is a major hobby for most of Caroline’s classmates, including the lovelorn Thurston (Reece Thompson), who falls for Caroline the minute he lays eyes on her. And then there’s the minor inconvenience of a killer running around the neighborhood. What’s a girl to do but start an affair with the most available teacher at school?
Visually arresting, slyly funny and boasting its share of chills, Daydream Nation is a smart debut from Mike Goldbach (who co-wrote Childstar). An astute account of adolescent confusion and angst, the film exposes the wide rift between the adult and the adolescent worlds. No parent really knows how out of control their children are, but the adults in this world don’t seem to possess more maturity than their juniors.
The trailer (which you can see here) sports an odd tone, but it does feature this writer’s #1 song of the year so far which is Beach House’s “Walk In the Park” so that makes up for it. It also features a song by Metric singer Emily Haines. The film premieres this fall at the Toronto International Film Festival which runs September 9-19. [TIFF]
