🎬 Review: Centered around the queen bee at an elite boarding school, Tayarisha Poe's first feature is a YA gangster movie that doubles as a soulful meditation on the beauty and danger of power.
Pressed upon by a demanding mother and a school principal with an amply stuffed shirt, Selah , a black graduating senior, plays queen bee over five warring student factions at a pricey but ethnically diverse boarding school that's quite literally covered in ivy. Each faction has its own subculture, its own exchange currency and its own turf to defend.
Openly at war with a white rival , a blond piece of work in her own right who desperately wants to inherit her mantle, Selah befriends and subtly seduces Paloma , a newly arrived scholarship girl in whom she sees shades of her own former self. Both actresses are as lovely to look upon as they are adept with Poe's overly revealing script.
Ably supported by her cinematographer, Jomo Fray, Poe has an assured grasp of lighting and frame composition, and a vivid way with a neon palette that floods the witchy rituals with which young people spice up the dreary routines of school. Poe's serpentine plotting can be tiring in its endless swings between the battles that escalate when an informer is suspected within Selah's obedient ranks.
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