What I Love About Concrete

Release date: 2015-07-03
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Genres: Drama, Comedy, Fantasy
A homespun high school fairy tale comedy, What I Love About Concrete is a tour through the unbearable awkwardness, nascent cynicism, and disarming wonder that comprise the 11th grade experience, in a world where synchronized swimming breaks out in rundown motel pools, and dead swans are concealed in Mary Poppins-like bottomless book bags.
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Simon Foster
"Stewart and Dohan have conjured a high-school classic; a ‘Gilliam-esque’ teen-dream landscape filled with giddy humour, sweet innocence and touching emotion..." Read the full review here: http://screen-space.squarespace.com/reviews/2015/7/3/the-critics-capsule-revelation-2015-volume-2.html
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