The dark heroine of The Edge of Seventeen, on the other hand, only feels like she’s there, when in reality she’s a smart, pretty, comfortable-enough white girl living in suburban Portland, Oregon. Currently in cinemas, the exquisite Moonlight, in its difficult second segment, examines a teenage mind nearly smothered in doubt and despair, a kind of apocalyptic loneliness perhaps only known by people struggling to survive on the outer edges of their world. The Edge of Seventeen, for all its sprightly verve and wit, may be the best map of teen depression I’ve seen in a long time. But Craig’s script, and her subtly artful direction, favor the minor chords of these old melodies, digging under the obvious jokes to examine what animates them. (Opening November 18.) The film, from promising writer-director Kelly Fremon Craig, traverses familiar teen territory: an impossible crush, a prickly-lovable teacher-mentor, a mom who just doesn’t understand. That’s a fact evidenced beautifully in the entirely winning new teen dramedy The Edge of Seventeen, a funny, perceptive, and deceptively deep look at a high-school junior’s very bad couple of weeks. Strauss and Flower took over a team including some of the true greats of the English game (Pietersen, Anderson, Cook and Broad) and transformed them into a phenomenal winning machine before the pressure and scrutiny began to fracture bodies and minds.The formats for expressing it may have changed-diary to Facebook post, notes passed in class to anxious text messages-but teen angst remains mostly the same. Featuring unseen footage from the period and new interviews from star players and coaching staff including: Andrew Strauss, Sir Alastair Cook, James Anderson, Stuart Broad, Graeme Swann, Jonathan Trott and Andy Flower, The Edge will reveal the team's intense and often hilarious pursuit of success.
One of the toughest sports on the planet, and psychologically perhaps the most challenging. The Edge is a compelling, funny and emotional insight into a band of brothers' rise to the top, their unmatched achievements and the huge toll it would take. Between 20, the England Test cricket team rose from the depths of the rankings to become the first and only English side to reach world number one (since ICC records began).
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