Good One
Dir: India Donaldson, 2024, USA, 90 mins, Cert: 15
Mon 2 June // 20:00
Tickets: £5
A quietly devastating, wryly funny debut about teenage girlhood, bad dads, and ego trips in the great outdoors.
In India Donaldson’s insightful, piercing debut, 17-year-old Sam (Collias) embarks on a three-day backpacking trip in the Catskills with her dad, Chris (Le Gros) and his oldest friend, Matt (McCarthy). As the men’s petty tensions simmer and boundaries blur, Sam faces the uncomfortable moment when you start to see your parents as flawed, messy adults.
With echoes of Kelly Reichardt and Old Joy, India Donaldson’s beautifully restrained debut captures the ache of growing up, the awkward power dynamics of friendship, and the way a single small moment can change everything.
“In its lived-in quality and gathering churn,Good One is a dream of an indie, from the craft in every frame to the humour, epiphanies and mysteries that gird its portraiture.”– Los Angeles Times
Good One is, among its infinite attributes, an ode to a style of filmmaking that appears to be humble yet still manages to be devastating and humanistic to its very core. Mostly, it’s just a great fucking movie, full stop.”– Rolling Stone“
Donaldson crafts the most profound debut of the year so far”– Little White Lies
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