Sunburn Review
S_Club_7 be damned -- those seeking an antidote to nubile-European-teens-on-holiday flicks need look no further than Nelson_Hume's debut film, which scruffily charts the coming-of-age of about a dozen young Irishmen and women abroad. Sunburn may not be in the same league as such summer-job gems as Experience Preferred...But Not Essential, but it has a natural, unforced feel that overrides its at-times clichéd narrative. The natural cast -- led by the standout Cillian_Murphy -- drinks, smokes, and lazes away their time in America with a pleasantly unpretentious air: Hume doesn't presume that their experience is the stuff of revelatory, life-altering drama, nor does he resort to lame, culture-clash one-liners. Shot with a gritty, sun-dappled flair by Frank_De_Marco and scored by the irrepressibly buoyant High_Llamas, Sunburn is the rarest of teen trifles: one whose irrepressible atmosphere and personality linger long after its inconsequential plot has faded. Michael Hastings, Rovi
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