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Typhoon Club

1985 · 115 min

A restless, humid drift through adolescent alienation that tightens into something unsettling and strangely beautiful.

Tagline: We're in the gym at midnight, we're in the eye of the typhoon!
Overview: Offering a caustic immersion into the lives of disaffected junior high students on the cusp of adulthood, the film takes place over the 5-day period before, during, and after a ferocious, seemingly liberating typhoon, which six of the students endure while marooned in their school.
How it feels: Dark, melancholic, tense and earnest. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Coming-of-age, isolation, identity, death
Content: Mild violence, gore, sexual content and language.
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Tone: darkstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: coming-of-age
isolation
identity
death
family
Places: small town
school
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: ensemble
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild