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Born in Berdyansk, a small peninsula town on the coast love to work wrth Davrd Lynch.‘ Kurylenko says. ‘l'rri such of the Azov Sea in southwest Ukraine. Kurylenko grew up a big fan. He's a genius." with aspirations to act. At the invrtation of a modelling I The Serpent. Film/rouse, Edinburgh from Fri 74 Sep.

tit ttvll lh’ SUPERBAD (15) 112min .000

One would have to return to the lettttls and teen movies HIS/U. Business and /-errrs Hue/M's [)a‘l Off to find a \outh comedx that hits the (‘1 spot guite like producer .ludd Apatow's Superhad. After ‘.‘.’llllllt} and directing hits The-1t) Year O/d‘flrgiri and knocked Up. Apatew hands the vaiting reins to his knocked Up star Seth Hogen. who. together ‘.\’llll to miter [wan Goldberg. has constructed an autobiogr.tphical teen tantam \‘.hit‘h manages to be outrageously rude and crude. \et somehow remains hoth sophisticated and ittriipassionate in its consideration of what makes teenagers tick.

What makes Superhad super good .‘ lhe premise is hardl, original nerd‘. teenagers [Nan tMichael Ceial. Seth elonah Hilli and Fogell i(‘,hr!stopher Mintx Plassel ha\e a t‘ra.'\, night of adventures after their atter‘ittt In) litl. alztohe tilt-gia‘i'. goes disastrousl\ mong. the, hovs are. closely bended h. their desire te aet tat; while inertxtsinglx aware that the intrusion of girls into thezr herrrietieall. sealm) world of sexual longing potentiall\ spells the end of their tnenlsttt‘.

As well as eliciting fluent performances from his vast. directo' Greg; r": Dal f'lt‘flers Mottola deftly S‘.‘.llt‘,llt‘,S the narratrxe ttet'.'.'eer‘ tne box ':1 (rues‘. ">r integration and Fogell's misguided attempts to corm'tce the. he}: a vitae " world. The Rabelaisian dictates ithe word fuck is used 786 times er nasal a wrstful valentine to the innocent \alues of childhood friendship. A pubescent hcot. (Eddie Harrison) I General re/ease from Fir 74 See.

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