Screening Room: 'We Are Your Friends' | Chris Barsanti
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Posted on August 25, 2015 by chrisbarsantiunder Film - New
Zac Efron feels the beat (Warner Bros.)
It’s been about 40 or so years since DJ Kool Herc started spinning in the Bronx, but every few years the culture wakes up to the idea that, Hey, this DJing thing might be its own kind of creative expression. Thusly, ever so earnest films like We Are Your Friends, with Zac Efron as a striving DJ from the San Fernando Valley trying to make it in a cold, cruel world.
My review of We Are Your Friends, which opens this week, is at Film Journal.
