The story of a precocious six year-old and her ragtag group of friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of adventure while the adults around them struggle with hard times.
Rated 5.0 / 5 from 2 logs on Katalog
Children playing in a purple motel like is a fairytale castle almost made me forget all those awfully sad and "adult things" happening in the background Really beautiful made, loved the colour palette "You know why this is my favorite tree? 'Cause it's tipped over, and it's still growing."
the beautiful, flourishing people the americans could be if only they weren't living in a 9,833,520 km2 concentration camp.
A sobering reflection of class struggle in the United States. For those unaware, this film focuses on Moonee, a six-year-old girl, who lives with her mother in a hotel and follows her exploits while in the background her mother Halley Perdue's different avenues to help her and her daughter survive. It is a 'slice of life' film that manages to capture themes about the naivety of childhood, about neglect (parental and societal), about how poverty can lead us to make desperate decisions and lead us to move poverty traps. Once again Sean Baker demonstrates his mastery of location. Often when locations are discussed in films these days they are done from a purely aesthetical perspective. I am certainly guilty of this, when I discuss locations in James Bond films for example. However The Florida Project reflects on Baker's ability to use location as a 'character' or as vital to the storytelling experience. The film is set around Disney World and captures the vast weatlh inequality as r
