2018 · drama · coming-of-age
The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Directed by Desiree Akhavan1h 32m2018
Pennsylvania, 1993. After getting caught with another girl, teenager Cameron Post is sent to a conversion therapy center run by the strict Dr. Lydia Marsh and her brother, Reverend Rick, whose treatment consists in repenting for feeling “same sex attraction.” Cameron befriends fellow sinners Jane and Adam, thus creating a new family to deal with the surrounding intolerance.
Our read: The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · coming-of-age entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / coming-of-age, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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