“I encourage everyone to skate through New York City at nighttime with a bunch of homies, and then you’ll understand.” Smith later told THR that the film “definitely” showed him a new side to New York, and went so far as to say it changed his life - but he demurred when asked for specifics. But I’m really trying to work on the latter and to work with actors more and create some more fictionalized work.” “I feel like if I’m pulling out a version of themselves, it’s easier for me than trying to turn somebody into somebody else. So I really just have a comfort zone working with non-actors,” she explained. “I think it’s because I’m a documentary filmmaker at heart. Considering her roots in documentary filmmaking, Moselle said that that was hardly the daunting task she’s naturally more comfortable working with non-actors in front of the camera, anyway. Having never acted prior to Skate Kitchen, which charts Camille’s coming-of-age-esque journey from being an outcast Long Island skater to becoming a proud member of Skate Kitchen herself, the film marks the skaters’ feature film debuts. “And then Rachelle has this kind of more quiet, strong beauty, but also, like, a sadness to her. “Nina has this voice and she is so incredible and she just has that charisma and it really pulled me in,” she said. Recalling how she first ran into the girls of Skate Kitchen while commuting on the G Train several years ago, Moselle says that it was Vinberg and Nina Moran that first intrigued her to their story. So I’m really happy that I was able to be right on the zeitgeist with that.” “I set out to accomplish their specific story, and it just happened to involve that theme, which is amazing and so current right now. “I think right now it’s time for equality, so making a film that is very female-centric and where they’re talking about issues that are really about women is important,” she told THR. Moselle later added that she’s happy to share these girls’ stories onscreen while contributing to the greater cultural mandate for gender equality. 10, highlights the successes and travails of a female-dominant skater group in a male-dominated subculture, and the distinction in word choice is an important one. The Sundance hit, hitting theaters on Aug.
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Skate Kitchen is a New York movie that feels ersatz: too timid to dive deeply into economics (to see this done right, try France’s Girlhood), too quick to pin its free spirits to foam board.Jaden Smith Whips Around Tokyo in 'GHOST' Video: Watchīut writer-director Moselle, previously best known as the documentarian behind 2015’s The Wolfpack and here making her narrative film debut, later jumped in, saying, “They’re not tomboys! They’re just women - like anybody else - who skate.” Unlike the skaters-always magnetic when they ollie and rail-Moselle has only one move as a filmmaker: rhapsodic slo-mo and drony guitar rock on the soundtrack.
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Just as her new squad goals are taking shape, along come the angry texts from Mom, plus the inevitable boyfriend complications in the form of a soft-spoken coworker Devon (Jaden Smith, more comfortable in the presence of nonprofessionals).
Heading into the city, she thrills to the don’t-give-a-fuck urbanity of a group of female daredevils. We follow Camille (Rachelle Vinberg, often a blank behind her glasses, and no discovery like Kids’ Chloë Sevigny), a Long Island teen who yearns to escape her home life with her single mother. Once again, in her latest, her subjects are actual people, skaters she found on Instagram and befriended.īut imposing a story on them brings out the syrupy worst in Moselle. But if you remember Larry Clark’s downbeat 1995 Kids, a vastly more adventurous movie, you’ll feel a depressing sense of indie sellout.ĭirector Crystal Moselle is an observer: She found the movie-obsessed shut-in brothers of her 2015 documentary debut, The Wolfpack, mining their real-life story for urban legend. Skate Kitchen’s sense of euphoric sisterhood-it comes in humid waves that warm you-may be enough to carry you over some gnarly plot clichés. They glide effortlessly down traffic-free NYC streets (it might as well be Idaho), these cool girls on their boards, the sun-dappled summer light just right.
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