My Old School, 2022 - ★★★½

MY OLD SCHOOL (Jono McLeod, Britain, 2022) 7

In fiction, I don’t think there’s such a thing as a script too good to eff up; for documentaries, I am confident there’s such a thing as a subject too good to eff up. Here is one. MY OLD SCHOOL's basic premise (though not the whys, the hows, the implications) is spelled out at the start: Brandon Lee, seemingly a 16-year-old student at posh Glasgow-area Bearsden Academy around 1995, was actually a man of about twice that age. Director Jono McLeod mixes contemporary interviews with Bearsden students reminiscing about Brandon with animated footage in the ’90s-style of Daria recreating some of those memories. They are funny and cutting in the Glaswegian style, and their story isn’t just from the obvious “how were we fooled?” Brandon...

Proper Review
May 31st 2022
Full review >>
Like Love Haha Wow Sad Angry Hmm Dislike