(Rome Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Marino fearful- The photos are published with the permission of Rome Film Fest)

Presented for the Italian to the thirteenth edition of the Rome Film Festival, within the Official Selection, The re-education of Cameron Post, second feature of the young American director Desiree Akhavan is a small feature that aims to tell a story like many others, without wanting at all costs overdoing.

Always passionate about the events that take place within rehabilitation homes, The director chose as the setting for this work, just a religious structure to accommodate teenagers attracted to the same sex. Among patients, the young Cameron Post (Chloe Grace Moretz), just, here it locked up after being discovered while kissing a classmate during prom. The girl, initially disoriented, You will soon find valuable allies in Jane (Sasha Lane), amputated leg, and his Indian friend Lakota (John Gallagher Jr.). It is the task of the three disrupt the balance within the structure, in order to regain a well-deserved freedom.

Clean in the form, with the excellent interpretation of Moretz as a spearhead, this little, valuable feature of Akhavan is immediately think of a younger Jason Reitman, no special writing level peaks, but honest and well shot, just enough to be classified as one of the most enjoyable products of the Rome Film Festival. There is fascinated, the director, from dangerous rhetoric and platitudes. While riding, indeed, one of the topics of the moment, You do not want at all costs to give a political or social message (except for a critique of religious institutions and their narrow views). What you want primarily to stage is a true hymn to freedom, of life and thought that is. And that message is reflected especially in the freshness of the entire product, free, young and full of life. Though, therefore, given his youth and lack of experience behind the camera, Desiree Akhavan has yet to reach its own, defined stylistic, a second work like this gives us hope in interesting future work.

marina fears