Title - Eighth Grade
Studio - A24
Starring - Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton, Emily Robinson, Jake Ryan
Writer - Bo Burnham
Director - Bo Burnham
Release - 3 August 2018
Beautifully written and directed by Bo Burnham, his first feature no less, and this turned out to be one of the best films of the year.
It also wasn't difficult to be a top movie when you have Elsie Fisher and Josh Hamilton playing so well off each other, and on their own, that I could not help myself but to fall in love with Fisher's character so much just after the first act.
But what was so great about this was Burnham's direction, because he was able to bring you into every scene in this movie and you would be able to feel everything that Fisher was feeling. All that uncertainty, all that shyness, all the forced courage, everything was almost perfect.
I am still not a fan of just a non-dialogue sequence with background music playing to make the scenes more realistic or a sense of realism, because there are other ways to do it that aren't more than a decade year old; but I honestly did not mind most of it here.
Burnham was the biggest surprise. From a YouTube sensation to a standup comic, and now a writer and director. What can't he do?
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