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SPF-18, released via Netflix and iTunes, is the first feature-length film by the Los Angeles-based artist Alex Israel (b. 1982). The plot, in the form of a coming-of-age drama, centers around four eighteen-year olds who find themselves holed up in Keanu Reeves’s Malibu beach house the summer after high school graduation. Their futures, longings and desires are shared and questioned, as iTunes’ synopsis hints: “School’s out, and eighteen-year-old Penny think she’s got her life all figured out with heartthrob surfer boyfriend Johnny…until a mysterious musician comes to town and changes …