With its unique mix of 90s nostalgia, series homage and twisted horror nightmare, I Saw the TV Glow is one of the most exciting films of the year. Watch the first trailer now.
Everyone probably knows the feeling when a (TV) series seems to replace your own life with its fascinating pull. However, this phenomenon has probably never been depicted in a movie as radically and groundbreakingly as in Jane Schoenbrun’s I Saw the TV Glow.
The first trailer gives you an impression of this ingenious genre mix, which has already been met with pure enthusiasm at festival premieres.
You can watch the trailer for I Saw the TV Glow here:
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In the plot of Jane Schoenbrun’s film, teenagers Owen (Justice Smith) and Maddy (Brigette Lundy-Paine) become friends in the 90s because they both love a weird TV series. “The Pink Opaque” comes across as a mystery-fantasy adventure in which two young women with supernatural powers fight against evil. The series soon captivates them both to such an extent that reality and fiction merge into an intoxicating mindfuck.
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I Saw the TV Glow screened at this year’s Berlinale and generated enthusiastic reactions. The Filmstarts review, which awards 5 out of 5 stars, also addresses another special level of the film:
For 16-year-olds, pop culture can be anything, a tool, an object of seduction that offers you new ways of looking at something like your own identity and sexuality, but that can also explain to you that this identity doesn’t have to be something fixed, something lockable.
I was able to watch I Saw the TV Glow at the Berlinale and can only advise everyone to make a note of this movie. Jane Schoenbrun has created an incredibly loving, detailed homage to the 90s. It will also delight everyone who only knows the 90s through clumsy Netflix nostalgia à la Stranger Things or Fear Street – Part 1: 1994
(Justice Smith and Brigette Lundy Paine in I Saw the TV Glow)
The film does not exhaust itself in simple references, but delves deep into its own original mythology. Identity confusion, youthful feelings and disturbing obsessions grow into a tornado of intoxicating and disturbing impressions
