Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015 Alfonso Gomez-Rejon)

And dedicated to the director's dad. Is this the work of a talented film school grad? How closely was the script and direction worked on together? It's certainly a film which is jam packed full of movie references, not just in the recreations of classics (shades of Be Kind Rewind) but in posters, clips, scores - so moving do I find that Quatre Cents Coups music and ending that it almost overshadowed the rest of the film.

To answer the first question first. Gomez-Rejon worked as personal assistant then second second unit director for people like Nora Ephron, Scorsese and Inarittu. This is his second film as director (The Town That Dreaded Sundown was the first). The screenplay is by Jesse Andrews and is from his own novel, and he did hate high school and make comic films with friends.

The only person in front of or behind the camera I recognised was Brian Eno, who wrote the original music. The actors are Thomas Mann, RJ Cyler (rather good I thought as Earl) and Olivia Cooke, with Nick Offerman, Connie Britton and Molly Shannon.

It's a sad comedy, inventively filmed (wide angles, animation, sideways camera, stuff you tend to grow out of I guess).