Scenes from the Suburbs (2011)

Recommended

USA/Canada

Short Film

Director: Spike Jonze

Writers: Will Butler, Win Butler, Spike Jonze

Cinematographer: Greig Fraser

Composers: Arcade Fire

Cast: Sam Dillon, Zoe Graham, Zeke Jarmon, Paul Pluymen, Ashlin Williamson

Spike Jonze’s stylishly melancholy collaboration with Canadian band Arcade Fire, inspired by their acclaimed 2010 album The Suburbs, enigmatically and affectingly paints a portrait – against the backdrop of a town under martial law – of a disintegrating friendship, from carefree summer days of lads larking around, through miscommunication and alienation, to acrimony and violence. Iain.Stott