Dazed and Confused- Linklater in focus
Coming-of-age comedy about the last day of school at a Texas high school in 1976. Early film by Richard Linklater, with a then-unknown cast full of now-familiar faces (Matthew McConaughey, Milla Jovovich).
DAZED AND CONFUSED (1993) remains relatively unknown in the Netherlands, while the film is considered to be one of the best teenage films of all times in the US. The film follows a group of teenagers as their senior year in high school has just ended. Bongs blaze and bell-bottoms ring. They pass their time with typical teenage entertainment: hanging out, taking drugs and philosophising a bit. A film that is not so much about ‘the best years of our lives’ as it is about teenage angst and boredom.
To mark the release of HIT MAN, we're presenting some highlights from Richard Linklater's body of work under the banner Linklater in Focus: DAZED AND CONFUSED, the BEFORE trilogy, and BOYHOOD. This is a unique opportunity to (re)discover these classics on the big screen.