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“Young Adult” will recieve the Palm Springs International Film Festival’s Vanguard Award on Jan. 7. The film’s director, Jason Reitman, writer Diablo Cody and stars Charlize Theron and Patton Oswalt will all be present to accept the award.
This marks the second Vanguard Award for Cody and Reitman, who won for “Juno” in 2008.
“The filmmakers and cast represent the some of the best and most exciting filmmaking work of the year and have delivered a biting black comedy as deeply poignant as it is funny,” said Film Festival chairman Harold Matzner in a statement.
December is the season of puffed-up Award Movies. Whether good or bad, War Horse and We Bought a Zoo and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy all have a prestige-y sameness to them. So consider Young Adult (Paramount)–a collaboration between the Juno tag team of director Jason Reitman and writer Diablo Cody–a sharp stick to puncture those bloated hopefuls. Young Adult doesn’t fully work, but it’s still one of the year’s most memorable movies, a ruthless portrait of a heroine with a serious love/loathe relationship with herself.
It’s always kind of sad to hear adults tell teenagers to enjoy high school because it’s the best time of one’s life. If that’s the case, math nerds, band geeks and, well, basically anyone who isn’t a jock or a cheerleader (and maybe even some of those) don’t have much to look forward to. But for Mavis Gary (Charlize Theron), high school was the best time of her life, and 20 years later, she hasn’t really moved on, ghostwriting soapy young-adult novels from a Minneapolis high-rise apartment decorated like a college dorm room.
What I enjoyed most about Young Adult is how it functions as an anti-romantic comedy. Scenes from the rom-com playbook–the meet-cute, the big confession, the first kiss, the pep talk from a friend–turn skewed and absurd, thanks to Mavis’ appalling lack of self-awareness. It’s reminiscent of 2009′s Seth Rogen-starring Observe and Report, which also employed an imbalanced main character to turn formulaic story beats into moments of creeping horror. Young Adult isn’t as rigorous as that film, which never shied away from the dark and awful ramifications of its premise. The ending of Young Adult, on the other hand, is tonally uncertain; my colleague Dana Stevens and I, for instance, have completely opposite interpretations of what happens in the final moments.
As with Observe, audiences aren’t likely to embrace Young Adult; after the screening I attended, everyone on the elevator (other than me) was visibly angry about the movie they’d just watched. But I admired Young Adult for its chutzpah and Theron for her go-for-broke performance. Most of all, I rejoiced in Diablo Cody’s deft, funny, angry script. Where Juno hid a conventional story under its jargon-studded, ostensibly subversive surface, Young Adult is genuinely radical (and hamburger-phone free). I’m happy that Cody has mined her own obsession with teenagedom–and her experience of being a minor celebrity–and turned it into something spikier and more uncompromising than I would have expected. I’m keeping my fingers crossed for Cody’s happiness, but boy was I fascinated by Mavis’ misery.