Last year during my festival survey, I caught Mia Hansen-Løve’s Eden, an epic feature exploring the underground music scene in the early 1990s from the perspective of a DJ collective caught up in the swirling dynamics of sex, drugs and music. We Are Your Friends, from co-writer and director Max Joseph (of documentary feature 12 Years of DFA: Too Old to Be New, Too New to Be Classic), taps Zac Efron to lead a similar collective in the San Fernando Valley with dreams of gaining fame and fortune on the grandest of scales. This take seems intent on making the club scene mainstream, which means it has already lost any trace of the hipster cred it once had. (Opens wide Friday) (R) Not screened in time for review
This article appears in Aug 26 – Sep 1, 2015.
