My Old School

Film details

Film TitleMy Old School
Suitability
Genre
Length104mins
Year2022
CountryUnited Kingdom
DirectorJono McLeod
ActorsAlan Cumming, Dawn Steele, Clare Grogan
LanguageEnglish
Showings

In 1993, 16-year-old Brandon Lee enrolled at Bearsden Academy, a secondary school in a well-to-do suburb of Glasgow, Scotland. What followed over the next two years became the stuff of legend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNHp-MYBy7Y

Watching My Old School is like listening to a bunch of friends tell you about the wildest memory they share, and with flashbacks rendered in animation that recalls ’90s shows like Daria, it’s a romp of a period piece, too.

The film wryly reveals high school memories to be a curious thing: slippery, subjective and perhaps a little rose-tinted.

This exceedingly creative and endlessly clever look back at a mysterious new student at a Scottish high school… works its true-crime storyline in a way that sticks with you as much as the more “serious” nonfiction entries.