Miss Stevens (Lily Rabe) is a somewhat melancholy California English teacher, chaperoning a small group of students (notebly Lili Reinhardt and Timothee Chalamet) for an out of town drama competition. I didn't do drama in high school but I did speech and debate, and this movie rings true to the experience of the weekend tournament trip. There's the drama inherent to high school kids, all the more so to one's of a performative temperament, there's the bureaucracy of the tournaments, the sometimes absurd compition, the close quarters, romantic tensions and the sheer exhaustion. The whole cast is good with Chalamet and Rabe the standouts, Rabe inparticular giving a fine performance as a hurting soul navigating the emotional boundaries she must keep with her students. ***
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