Perhaps coincidentally, the title “The Wave” recalls Todd Strasser’s 1980s YA novel of that name, which became a staple of Gen-X and early-millennial English syllabi, on the strength of some easily digestible allegory in its tale of a notionally empowering student movement gone fascistically awry. A fast-building student movement is also the subject of Sebastián Lelio’s new film “The Wave,” though in this case its politics stay strictly and righteously on course, rippling through a university campus enraged by manifold cases of sexual misconduct against young women by male peers and staff. Inspired by a real-life wave of #MeToo-adjacent demonstrations that shut down multiple Chilean colleges in 2018, Lelio
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