{"id":8948,"date":"2019-10-14T15:11:02","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T14:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/?p=8948"},"modified":"2019-10-14T15:11:03","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T14:11:03","slug":"lff-luce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/lff-luce\/","title":{"rendered":"LFF: Luce"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Luce <\/em>is a really interesting piece. Luce (Kevin Harrison Jr) is a High School superstar. He gets great grades, gives speeches to his school, and is captain of the track team as their star 200m runner.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But he was once a child soldier in Eritrea, and has been adopted two middle class white parents (Naomi Watts and Tim Roth), who\u2019ve spent a long time trying to eradicate him of the horrors of his previous life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At school his history teacher (Octavia Spencer) is, for some reason, a bit suspicious of Luce. It\u2019s not entirely clear why, when the rest of the school finds him outstanding. We begin to learn about something that happened at a party involving Luce\u2019s then girlfriend (Andrea Bang).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Luce is also acutely aware that his friend DeShaun (Brian Bradley) has been almost abandoned by the school as he\u2019s slipped into a world of drugs and crime, having once had an athletic career ahead of him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But this is really a chamber piece adapted by director Julius Onah and writer JC Lee from a play by JC Lee. And in truth, it always feels like a play. Is Luce an all-star student that he seems, or is there a dark side to him? He\u2019s smart enough that he could be playing other people. Indeed, he definitely is at times.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You\u2019re massively conflicted.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The music by Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury is also urgent and drives the narrative on, the pair having mostly worked on science fiction films like Ex Machina<\/em> and Annihilation <\/em>previously.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a very smart film, with a fantastic leading performance from Harrison, but it needed to move away a little from its roots on the stage a bit more than it did. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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