Endless Summer Syndrome

None of these potentially intriguing avenues play out with much thought, diminishing the emotional effect of a tragedy that winds up seeming like an exercise in style.

Daneshmand’s assured direction marks him as a filmmaker to watch. His beautifully crafted debut avoids heavy-handed moralizing while addressing a taboo subject with sensitivity and compassion.

"Endless Summer Syndrome" is provocative and somewhat mysterious, but Daneshmand doesn't turn it into exploitation.

"The narrative truth in 'Endless Summer Syndrome' lies in what goes unsaid and what's just outside the frame."

ENDLESS SUMMER SYNDROME is a fascinating effort in no small part because it challenges us to consider and confront our own responses to the situation at hand in ways that feel designed to make us uncomfortable beyond just what is playing out onscreen.

While perhaps a little too in-love with its own clever construction to explore its characters’ psyches to the fullest depth, Endless Summer Syndrome is a compellingly subversive concoction that dares raise uncomfortable questions with no easy answers.

... philosophical concepts of parent-child relationships as the foundation from which to derive tension so as to drive the characters and audiences alike beyond their understood academic systems of thought toward a precipice from which there is no return.

Director Kaveh Daneshmand creates a contentious setup and forces the audience to stare down the questions at his film's heart. It's an excellent debut, one which promises a bright future for Daneshmand as a writer and director.

This nifty little film will keep viewers rapt as the truth comes to light.

“Endless Summer Syndrome” is a provocation with a rare respect for the spectator’s own moral compass.