Lights out parents guide
So, while this has added more options, we still find that in order for the kids to not have to play the same opponents over and over again, we need to find regional competition for our high school teams and send them to “travel” or “away” tournaments. Thanks to the efforts by Dave and Will, Ultimate has taken off in Arlington and YULA now sponsors a 200 person middle school league and club high school teams at each of our county high schools**. They coached the kids and had regular practices, but in order for them to find some games to play, they had to take the team to tournaments in other cities and regions like Philadelphia, Raleigh/Chapel Hill, New Jersey, Atlanta, etc. For example, when high school ultimate was started in Arlington by Dave Soles and Will Smolinski some 18 years ago, they only had enough players from all the Arlington high schools to form one team, so they created “YHB” (Yorktown-HB). This means that there are often not enough youth teams in any given area for a regular full-season league to exist. Since ultimate is a relatively new sport at the youth division level, it is not as widely played as other sports like soccer, basketball, etc. One of the things that is often new to parents of high school ultimate players is the concept of the “travel tournament”, so we thought we’d share a little info on how our “travel” tournaments work and why we have them. YULA, with its mission to support and promote youth ultimate in Arlington, is here to help educate these parents so that they can have fun supporting their kids in this wonderful and addictive sport. So, while they are familiar with how the rec soccer leagues and travel basketball leagues work, when it comes to knowing what to expect from ultimate, many parents are lost. Was it the creepy science teacher Rabier (Riaboukine)? Or perhaps his geekish, peeping-Tom son Jean-Baptiste (Mazet)? When Jean-Baptiste himself goes missing along with the class punkette, Laetitia, the rumour-mill goes wild (though rather oddly, the school authorities take no action)."You are going to put 50 high school kids on a charter bus at 5:00am? Are you crazy?" - the average new YULA Parentįor many high school parents, ultimate Frisbee is something new and different. A boy called Simon Werner has gone missing, and rumours abound in the school.
From all four stories, which occupy more or less equal screen time, we glean the basic facts. Opening with a prologue in which a body is found in the woods after a teen house party, the film soon backtracks ten days to recount the events leading up to the discovery from the perspective of Jeremie, the sports jock whose party it was. But there are no external clues in the film’s hermetic, claustrophobic world, not even from the diegetic songs that supplement Sonic Youth’s jangly guitar breaks: these span at least fifteen years. The period setting is equally difficult to pin down: haircuts and clothes float somewhere between the late eighties and early nineties. All are students in a nameless high school in a nameless French town, which has very little specifically French about it: with its manicured lawns and neat suburban houses, it could be anywhere from the outskirts of Paris to the outskirts of Des Moines.
Lights Out tell the same story four times, from the point of view of four of its main players.