The wind blows in their hair, the music swoons with possibilities, and three teenage girls frolic and look for meaning in their adolescent lives accompanied by some gorgeous low-lit cinematography. It looks and feels like a drama, perhaps a Sofia Coppola coming-of-age film about teenage isolation, loneliness, and where to fit in. But it’s actually the film, “Cusp,” the award-winning feature documentary from first-time feature-film directors Parker Hill and Isabel Bethencourt. Winners of the 2021 Emerging Filmmaker Special Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival, Hill and Bethencourt’s film was quickly snatched up by Showtime.

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A sun-flared and bong-addled tumble into a teenage Texan summer rife with bombshells and boyfriend problems, “Cusp,” from debut directors Parker Hill and Isabel Bethencourt is one of those fractal-style documentaries, in which any given sliver contains all the colors and contours of the whole. The opening is a case in point: Long-haired girls lounge on a swing in the park, scoffing, wriggling, idly shooting the shit – it could be any year from any of the last five or six decades, except for the phones they glance at every now and then.

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