Timothée Chalamet and Steve Carrell shine through this tragic true-life story. In 2008, David Sheff released the critically acclaimed novel Beautiful Boy, a memoir detailing the harrowing accounts of his teenage son's decade-long struggle with a crystal meth addiction. The same year, Nic Sheff, that very same son, released a memoir of his own titled Tweak. Now, nearly ten years later, director Felix Van Groeningen has taken on the monumental task of combining both of these stories into one multilayered adaptation of a family in crisis. The medium of film provides Van Groeningen with the unique opportunity to retell this story with the two men's perspectives pressed up against each other, almost as if each could witness another's narrative arc behind a two-way mirror. What we get is a furious chronicle of addiction flashing back and forth between Nic's reckless usage and David's constant search for some sort of understanding as to why it was happening. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Tuesday, 9 October, 2018