Counter culture
DVDs
THE FLORIDA PROJECT
Directed by SEAN BAKER
Starring WILLEM DAFOE, BROOKLYNN PRINCE, BRIA VINAITE
THE SHAPE OF WATER
Directed by GUILLERMO DEL TORO
Starring SALLY HAWKINS, MICHAEL SHANNON, RICHARD JENKINS
An exhilarating vision of carefree childhood just as it intersects with adult disappointment, The Florida Project is a postcard from the frayed edges of society — in this case, a sun-blasted strip of concrete in Orlando near the magical kingdom of Walt Disney World. There stands a run-down motel called Magic Castle, painted all over in an eye-watering shade of bubblegum mauve; among its residents are six-year-old Moonee and her troubled mum Halley, a stroppy, tattooed mall rat barely out of her teens.
Halley (Bria Vinaite) drifts and grifts her way through life, sometimes selling
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