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Five friends fill their idle hours with petty crime. One day, a professional gangsta and his charming girlfriend convince them to participate in a major bank heist. When the authorities appear on the scene, the youngsters - who are in over their heads - are caught. The youths are surprised when, instead of being punished with the usual imprisonment in juvenile hall or jail, they are sentenced to serve a year and a half at an experimental reform school. 89 mins. / Dutch/Arabic with English, Spanish and French subtitles
"Movies about juvenile delinquents
have always loomed as one of cinema's more disreputable
but exhilarating subgenres — and with each
new generation of moviemakers comes a vivid update.
Shortly before his shocking murder in November 2004,
the controversial director Theo Van Gogh completed
this raw, fatalistic view of Amsterdam kids caught
up in the street ethos, moving in time to a hip-hop
beat that glamorizes the gangsta lifestyle to which
they carelessly subscribe. " "Cool! defies us to look
at the flip side of pop culture's bright surfaces,
particularly the rift between the glamorization of
gangsta life and its brutal reality. Far from preaching,
however, it retains a deliciously subtle, mocking
tone throughout. With searing insight, Cool! slyly
challenges commonplace notions about teenagers and
what constitutes "cool."
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