The other star is the setting: So often Hollywood shorthand for a low-rise prison where teenage dreams are crushed by dead-end jobs and mom and dadвЂ™s hardline stance on keg parties, here the Valley is bathed in bleached-out sunlight and bittersweet nostalgia. Together, the pair are both basically cosplaying as grown-ups in a world that can get intimidating in a heartbeat. ThereвЂ™s also a dawning sense of horror as Alana runs a gauntlet of toxic, complicated and predatory men. Gary never lets the age differential quench his ardour, although his lack of a driving licence and penchant for ordering Cokes looks like a dealbreaker with Alana fast approaching her martini era.ДЄlana Haim is flat-out great as her firstnamesake, a tricky role she makes look effortless вЂ“ a wise owl around Gary but a fledgling out in the world. Cooper Hoffman, son of the late, great Philip Seymour Hoffman, continues the family tradition of being terrific in a Paul Thomas Anderson movie. Their evolving relationship, a much less carnal one than Gary would like, gives this fast, loose and loveable movie its spine. HeвЂ™s a child actor with a Lucille Ball-like hit sitcom to his name and commensurate levels of self-confidence. Alana Haim, of LA band Haim, is 25-year-old Alana Kane, a photographerвЂ™s assistant bemused to find herself being asked out by Gary Valentine, a smooth-talking high-schooler ten years her junior. Somehow a pair of novices вЂ“ albeit one with some serious acting pedigree вЂ“ its two headliners are born to their roles.

Licorice Pizza вЂ™s greatest coup, though, is its casting. ItвЂ™s the giddiness that grabs you in the CalifornianвЂ™s latest gem, and the dizzying sense of possibility and innocence. Paul Thomas AndersonвЂ™s sunniest movie yet (admittedly, not an especially high bar to clear) this San Fernando Valley palimpsest is so buoyant and bubbly, it practically floats off the screen.

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