A 14-year-old Ally Sheedy melts reality before your eyes — meta before meta was cool.
Pool is a melange of documentary and fiction, about its actors’ lives: a 14-year old girl, a Chilean exile, a French actress and an unfulfilled shoestore manager. No plot runs through it, but the characters all move in and out of their roles. When we get too close, we are reminded It’s only a movie. The young girl who appears at the beginning of the film is Ally Sheedy at fourteen. She has since appeared in many feature films including The Breakfast Club and High Art.
Direction
Rapaport blurs documentary and fiction with surgical precision.
Acting
Sheedy's raw teenage presence anchors the experiment.
Director
Pola Rapaport
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rapaport made this as her thesis film at NYU — Sheedy was a fellow student she cast on instinct.
Shot during peak American auteur cinema, it channels European New Wave meta-games while remaining stubbornly personal.
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