I Saw the TV Glow

I Saw the TV Glow is a confident, original film, birthed and crafted in a way that feels wholly different to anything you’ve seen before – certainly not in mainstream Hollywood cinema.

The ending is the rawest and best part of this ­unconventional movie.

The power of I Saw the TV Glow lies precisely in its ambiguity, which may go deeper than was intended.

Many moments unnerve, and a few may even alienate, but the sum is grandly and potently itself.

With its shapeshifting disquiet, I Saw the TV Glow is too languidly weird, too unmoored from genre conventions to be neatly categorised. But there’s not a frame in Jane Schoenbrun’s suffocating second feature that isn’t drenched in dread and unease.

The mythology, which becomes increasingly disturbing, is meticulous. But the same material proves a rich seam, a tale of roads not taken, a story that will speak to anyone who experienced an awkward pubescence or the jouissance of pop-culture enthusiasms.

Challenging and disturbing, the film directed by Jane Schoenbrun portrays a pair of existences lived in the virtual world that unfolds on every screen to which we are connected. [Full review in Spanish]

Deserves from now on a place of honor in the heart of self-referential fictions in the history of cinema, precisely because it challenges it with vivacity, passion and an infectious sadness. [Full review in Spanish]

Strange, slow, downbeat, and adamantly unempowering, it’s not going to be for everyone. Which, is, I think, part of the point.

I actually think the “in-your-face-ness” of it all respects just how big and yearning our feelings are when growing up... There’s no subtlety about those feelings when you’re having them, and Schoenbrun acknowledges that with empathy.