Firecrackers
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Synopsis
Lou and her best friend Chantal plan to get out of their isolated, run-down town and move to a city far, far away. When Chantal's unstable and possessive ex violates her during a night of partying, the girls decide to exact their revenge on him through a night of vandalism and debauchery. The consequences of their actions are devastating, threatening the girls' chances of ever leaving. The more Lou fights tooth-and-nail to save her friendship and hold onto her dreams, the more she spins out of control as she begins to realize that freedom will come at a high cost.
Cast
- Michaela Kurimsky
- Karena Evans
- Callum Thompson
- David Kingston
- Tamara LeClair
- Scott Cleland
- Dylan Mask
- Gabe Meacher
- Robert Cormier
- Tarick Glancy
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- Apr 2, 2019
Watched at Cineplex Odeon Intl. Village Vancouver. Very cool that small Canadian indies get distro at multiplexes here — you don’t see the same happening for small indies in US multiplexes. Nice cinematography and shows great potential for this first time director. Dylan…
Sean BakerJun 30, 2023“There are lots of bad people in this world, sweetheart. You better get used to it.”A solid, gritty film about two teenage girls / best friends trying to escape their small town. Many reviewers compare it to American Honey, but at least this one isn’t 163 minutes long!…
RealAndrewLeoFeb 5, 2020Rural Canada is a rough place to be - but as you see in Jasmin Mozaffari's Firecrackers, she creates a portrait brimming with hope, even in the darkest of times. As many other reviewers may note, there's a very prominent influence from Andrea Arnold that can be felt, in…
Jaime Rebanal 🇵🇸 - Mar 30, 2019
“all men be the same.”- gillian flynn
laurenAug 24, 2019michaela kurimsky and karena evans deserve awards for believably enjoying a cringey white boy freestyle 🙈
BoneSep 8, 2018FIRECRACKERS follows best friends Lou and Chantal as they're trying to leave their small rural Ontario town and head off to New York to start new lives. These girls are just teenagers but they feel the need to get out of their small town and make their lives better. …
Leesah Sea - Sep 7, 2018
TIFF 18' Firecrackers felt so much like The Florida Project to me, but so heartbreaking sometimes I could hardly look. But I loved it.
D.Nov 14, 2018i legit thought a dude wrote this.....that’s how wack the female characters were
tova hirschMay 18, 2019Before the screening of this movie, one of the SIFF programmers read a comment from writer/director Jasmin Mozaffari, who said she made the film as a rebuke to more sanitized versions of teen girls. While that is a perfectly honorable mission statement, those films are a…
Tyler Foster
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Jul 11, 2019
Neither over-bleak nor falsely heroic, the movie sensitively observes a short span that, however things work out, is going to be a turning point in their lives.
John DeFore
The Hollywood Reporter
Jul 11, 2019
Firecrackers isn’t just a confident feature debut from Mozaffari, but a daring one, the kind of fast and furious feminine filmmaking that heralds the arrival of several exciting new talents.
Katie Walsh
Los Angeles Times
Jun 29, 2019
The story may be overly familiar, but the language is slangy and crude, the sex is teen-impulsive and primitive, and the confrontations — on a littered beach, in that school parking lot, in a pool hall — are alarming. Firecrackers is a simple tale told with a raw ferocity and fuse-burning-down dread for the explosions to come.
Roger Moore
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