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Ham on Rye is streaming on Mubi. “Do you know what it’s like to be one of the lucky ones?” sings the John Peel-approved Australian outfit Even As We Speak over the opening credits of the baffling and seductive Ham on Rye. This is Blue Eyes Deceiving Me, one of several chiming pop songs (another is Tonight I’m Gonna Fall in Love by the 1960s girl group The Teardrops) on the soundtrack. These numbers break ecstatically through a dreamy score drawn from the back catalogue of the German New Age composer Deuter, who favours a haunting, elegiac flute.

Last modified on Thu 7 Jan 2021 10.30 EST First-time feature director Tyler Taormina has dreamed his way into a very strange and intriguing film: a Gen-Z reverie about life and fate, somewhere between The Prom and The Purge. The film never behaves as if it is anything other than a realist coming-of-age drama but there is something else going on. Haley (Haley Bodell) is part of a clique of popular high-school kids in a bland suburban town who are preparing to take part in a local tradition. She and some other girls are wearing floaty dresses of sacrificial white and getting ready to go down to...