In 2018, the film world was introduced to exciting new director Carlos López Estrada and his best-of-the-year movie, “Blindspotting.” Expectations for filmmakers as talented as Estrada can feel insurmountable, but “Summertime,” his sophomore feature film, is a wildly successful storytelling experiment of performance art and spoken word poetry. On the surface it sounds like an arduous undertaking, but somehow it turns out to be the epitome of indie cinema: an ego-less artistic collaboration with zero phoniness. Over the course of a summer day in Los Angeles, the lives of 25 teenagers interse…
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Summertime
Overview
Over the course of a hot summer day in Los Angeles, the lives of 25 young Angelinos intersect. A skating guitarist, a tagger, two wannabe rappers, an exasperated fast-food worker, a limo driver—they all weave in and out of each other's stories. Through poetry they express life, love, heartache, family, home, and fear. One of them just wants to find someplace that still serves good cheeseburgers.
Release date
09/07/2021
Votes
23
Popularity
0.7
Austin Antoine
Rah
Marquesha Babers
Marquesha
Bryce Banks
Anewbyss
Bene't Benton
Bene't
Amaya Blankenship
Amaya
Caedmon Branch
Sam
Mila Cuda
Mila
Gabriela de Luna
Alejandra (Paulina's mother)
Joel Dupont
Walter Finnie Jr.
Walter
Alyssa Kim
Diane
Gordon Ip
Gordon
Maia Mayor
Sophia
Anna Osuna
Anna
Sun Park
Hayun
Sophia Thomas
Sam's Mom
Tyris Winter
Tyris
Gihee Hong
Original Soundtrack
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