I discovered Haynes’s work in those golden years when I was precociously overenrolled, swaggeringly social, and getting laid all the time.
In all of his films, Todd Haynes takes elements of gaudy tabloid culture and warps them to his own purposes.
The film is simultaneously gut-churning, heart-wrenching, and head-thunking, a smorgasbord of alienation and detonation.