The Florida Project
The Florida Project tells the story of a precocious six year-old and her ragtag group of friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of adventure while the adults around them struggle with hard times.
22 July 1955, Appleton, Wisconsin, USA
7 December 1989, Garland, Texas, USA
9 December 1980, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
December 28, 2017
With his first three films filmmaker Sean Baker has managed to present slices of life from the underbelly of society that are often if not completely overlooked.December 26, 2017
It's triumph is its determined optimism, even if it admits that is probably a fantasy. It's a tale of the fallen who, like Moonee's favourite tree, keeps on growing regardless.December 26, 2017
The Florida Project is a remarkable movie.December 28, 2017
One of the year's most riveting, beautifully shot and well-acted films. It's a heartfelt look at the lives of the downtrodden.November 09, 2017
The Florida Project is one of the best films about childhood made anywhere in recent years.January 02, 2018
Heir to the traditions of Huck Finn, the 'Our Gang' shorts and other tales of feral children, Sean Baker's 'Tangerine' followup transforms the strip malls and short-term motels of Disneyfied Orlando into a magical playground of discovery and peril.November 09, 2017
The film's sympathetic eye ensures it doesn't exoticise the family's plight, or dip into poverty porn. Drunken brawls, pissed-off johns and vicious catfights are simply day-to-day eruptions here, blowing in and out of the motel like the Florida weather.November 10, 2017
The audience is invited to believe that their lives are devoid of thoughts and motivations beyond hustle and pleasure, and so the movie ends up feeling like a millennial Instagram feed: cute, edgy, explosive, pithy, but shallow.December 28, 2017
A reverse-Spielberg view of being a kid. No alien buddies, cuddly friends or otherworldly adventures. But there is still magic.November 09, 2017
The Florida Project absolutely sings as a visual achievement, and not only as that.November 09, 2017
The Florida Project is a song of innocence and of experience: mainly the former.November 16, 2017
Baker's work with his largely inexperienced cast is relaxed and playful, and the film's tone is fairly assured.