As You Are

Set in the early 1990s, As You Are is the telling and retelling of a relationship between three teenagers as it traces the course of their friendship through a construction of disparate memories prompted by a police investigation.

Directors statement: “I love movies, but I've always struggled with the "coming of age" genre. I think there is something inherently condescending about it. Obviously this doesn't span across the whole genre; but I think a lot of times when these stories are told by "adults," there can be this sort of romanticization of youth which misses the things I think are so important about that age, namely the intensity and stakes that every action carries. There isn't nostalgia in youth, it is immediate and hard. That was really why I wanted to tell this story now, I wanted to make this kind of film while I was still young enough to not miss it." ~ Miles Joris-Peyrafitte