Post-Punk Coming-of-Age Comedy ‘Head South’ to Open International Film Festival Rotterdam
variety.comLeo Barraclough International Features Editor Jonathan Ogilvie’s post-punk coming-of-age comedy “Head South” will open the 53rd International Film Festival Rotterdam on Jan.
25, with the festival running until Feb. 4. Ogilvie’s semi-autobiographical film is set in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1979 where a private schoolboy becomes desperately enamored with all things post-punk.
The director’s last film, thriller “Lone Wolf,” screened in the festival’s Big Screen competition section in 2021. Vanja Kaludjercic, IFFR festival director, said: “With ‘Head South,’ Jonathan Ogilvie returns to the festival with an unpredictable coming-of-age story that delights in its shifting tone.
Quirkiness and nostalgia become sober and thoughtful, only to turn exuberant and then something else again, in a fitting tribute to post-punk subculture.
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