Yosemite

Name: Yosemite
Genre: Drama
Released: January 1, 2016
Duration: 80 min
Rating: 59
Cast: Alec Mansky, Calum John, Everett Meckler, James Franco

2016

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Monterey Media | Release Date: January 1, 2016 | R

Starring: Alec Mansky, Calum John, Everett Meckler, James Franco

Summary: It's the fall of 1985. The intertwining tales of three 5th grade friends, Chris, Joe and Ted, unfold in the suburban paradise of Palo Alto, as the threat of a mountain lion looms over the community.

Director: Gabrielle Demeestere

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: R

Runtime: 80 min

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Devan Coggan

Jan 2, 2016

Franco gives one of his most subtle performances yet as a recovering-alcoholic father, and the three young newcomers’ performances are honest and affecting, capturing what it feels like to be adrift and on the verge of adolescence. Read full review

David Rooney

Dec 28, 2015

Yosemite is a contemplative drama, low-key perhaps to a fault. But Demeestere shows acute sensitivity in her understanding of boys and their growing awareness of the world, with its real and imagined menaces. Read full review

Dennis Harvey

Dec 28, 2015

Resolutely unshowy, sometimes almost too lower-case in its observations, Yosemite pays off in an authenticity that pervades both individual scene rhythms and performances. Read full review

Alan Scherstuhl

Jan 1, 2016

Like Gia Coppola's Palo Alto (2013), a lyric and biting evocation of contemporary well-to-do teendom, Gabrielle Demeestere's Yosemite mines Franco's fiction for its most vital quality: his unsentimental depiction of youthful insecurity, this time among fifth-graders.

Glenn Kenny

Jan 1, 2016

Ms. Demeestere’s direction winds up frustratingly splitting the difference between thoughtfully detached and just plain vague. Read full review

Gary Goldstein

Jan 21, 2016

Although evocative and nicely observed, the coming-of-age drama Yosemite ultimately proves too low-key and elliptical to make much of an impression. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Dec 28, 2015

It never adds up to anything more than the mood Demeestere manages to translate from Franco’s fiction. Which makes Yosemite a “film festival movie,” nothing more than a promising idea or two and an interesting tone to recommend it. Read full review

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