Hi-Glow Retro

The scouts

A high schooler learning disco to seduce a girl—it's the premise everyone's grandma would pitch at a dinner party, and Morsanutto knows it, which is probably why he made it anyway; the real question is whether the film commits to the bit or blinks.

The whimsy here risks tipping into treacle, but if Morsanutto's handling the period detail with the same rigor he'd apply to any formal homage, there's a lineage worth tracing—nostalgia cinema that knows *why* it's nostalgic.

Fourteen minutes of disco-fueled coming-of-age lives or dies on one choice—whether Morsanutto finds the texture, the specific movement or cut or performance moment, that makes '70s authenticity feel earned rather than costumed; that's the hinge.