I absolutely loved Francois Simard, Anouk Whissell, and Yoann-Karl Whissell’s previous co-directorial effort TURBO KID, a spot-on homage to low budget 80s sci-fi/action films. That film had a sense of humor about itself, but never descended to the sort of “we’re so above it all” mockery present in similar efforts like KUNG FURY.
With their latest film SUMMER
OF 84, the trio of filmmakers have decided to set their sights on a more
reputable strain of eighties cinema, the sort of mainstream adventure films
that Stephen Spielberg and his pals produced under the Amblin banner. Only SUMMER OF ’84 takes viewers to a darker
place than those comparisons might lead one to expect. It just takes a while to
get there.
