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...