Madfilm Meetup: MMoCA Spotlight Cinema
We Are the Best! (Lukas Moodysson, Sweden, 2013, 102 min)
MMoCA Spotlight Cinema, 227 State Street, Wednesday, October 1, 7pm»
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Note: This is a WEDNESDAY Madfilm Meetup
This week we will drop in on our good friends at Spotlight Cinema at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art for their screening of Swedish director Lukas Moodysson’s comedy, We Are the Best!. In 1980s Stockholm, three teenage girls decide to form a punk band, despite not having any instruments and being told that punk is dead.
Admission for Spotlight Cinema screenings is free for MMoCA members and $7 for the general public.
The Madison Film Forum wants you to stream one great film every week, attend at least one great film every month, and meet people doing the same. We don’t sponsor these screenings, we just support them by showing up.
As always we have aggregated reviews of We Are the Best! at our Flipboard Magazine. The film currently has a Tomatometer Rating of 97% at Rotten Tomatoes.
Review highlights include:
“We Are the Best! is the rare film about childhood friendship that seems to take place inside the world of children, not filtered through an adult scrim of nostalgia.” Dana Stevens, Slate
“Lukas Moodysson makes a sweet, spirited return to form with this utterly delightful evocation of early teenage life.” Guy Lodge, Variety
“You don’t have to like punk rock to fall in love with We Are the Best!; if a more joyous film comes along in 2014, then it’s a good year indeed.” Alonso Duralde, The Wrap