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I Saw The TV Glow

Directed by Jane Schoenbrun

2023

United States

100 minutes

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Two misfit teens bond over their obsession with a mysterious TV show but have an identity crisis when it’s suddenly cancelled, in this Sundance and Berlinale sensation.

With their second feature, Jane Schoenbrun (We’re All Going to the World’s Fair) creates a cryptic, horror-tinged mood piece that’s bound to inspire myriad interpretations and a devoted cult following. A singular portrait of adolescent loneliness, gender dysphoria, parasocial relationships and social media fixation, I Saw the TV Glow confirms that Schoenbrun is a serious talent. Fans of David Lynch, Gregg Araki and Richard Kelly will revel in this cinematic exploration of the teenage psyche. Striking imagery drifts atop an appropriately dreamy soundtrack featuring Caroline Polachek and Phoebe Bridgers and an original score by Alex G (as well as a supporting role for Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst).

An intimate landscape shot with the ultra-vivid resolution of a recurring dream; it marries the queer radicality of a Gregg Araki film with the lush intoxication of a Gregory Crewdson photo

David Ehrlich, IndieWire

I Saw the TV Glow is about the places we escape to when we don’t feel at home in the real world and the brutal truth that even fantasy has its limits

Jourdain Searles, The Hollywood Reporter