Desiree Akhavan's 'The Miseducation of Cameron Post,' starring Chloë Grace Moretz, is the story of a queer young girl's effort to assert her identity, against all odds. Teenage Cameron Post (Chloë Grace Moretz) is nonchalant about her sexuality. Were it not for her family's deeply religious and conservative worldview, Cameron probably wouldn't hide the fact that she's attracted to women. And to her, that's just what her sexuality is—a fact, like so many other inconsequential parts of her identity. Inconsequential, that is, until she is caught hooking up with her female classmate and outed to her parents. Almost without deliberation, Cameron is sent off to God's Promise, a gay conversion therapy camp where she will be "cured" of her same-sex attraction. Desiree Akhavan’s film, The Miseducation of Cameron Post, which won this year’s Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, follows Cameron as she experiences this attempted exorcism with genuine curiosity, and ultimately rejects it in a laid-back, self-assured way. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Thursday, 16 August, 2018