Skate Kitchen
Overview
Director/co-writer Crystal Moselle explores themes of friendship, personal freedom, athletic subculture, and gender dynamics in this coming-of-age film. Camille (Rachelle Vinberg), a lonely Long Island skateboarder, is thrilled to be accepted into a group of all-female skateboarders based in New York's Lower East Side. Her newfound friendships become strained when she befriends a boy from a rival group of all-male skaters.
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Main Cast & Crew:
Jaden Smith
Details
- Format: Blu-ray
- UPC: 876964016445
- Genre: COMEDIES
- Rating: R
- Release Date: November 2018
Movie Reviews
Reviews:
"[L]ess a coming-of-age film than a series of crucial episodes in that process, SKATE KITCHEN mixes dreaminess and disillusionment as it observes the choices Camille makes and the ensuing fallout..." - 08/08/2018 Hollywood Reporter
"[A]n irresistible hangout movie, offering a thoroughly millennial, vérité spin on ’80s skater classics like THRASHIN'..." - 01/21/2018 Variety
3 stars out of 4 -- "[A] solid hangout movie as well as a band-of-buddies film....It's also a movie that deliberately blurs the line between documentary and fiction: the main characters are all real New York skaters who are playing characters who are very close to themselves in real life." - 08/10/2018 RogerEbert.com
"Moselle and her cinematographer, Shabier Kirchner, capture their characters’ moves with a fluidity that toggles between the visceral and the lyrical." - 08/16/2018 Los Angeles Times
"This movie is a useful reminder that each subsequent generation of New York children gets the city’s magic where they find it. SKATE KITCHEN is a depiction of a particular kind of hangout freedom that’s at its most beautiful when it’s nearly languid..." - 08/09/2018 New York Times
"[I]ts perspective, which brings some much-needed diversity to the traditionally white-male face of skateboarding, is valuable and refreshing, as is its message about female friendship." - 08/08/2018 A.V. Club
4 stars out of 5 -- "[A] lyrical, affecting feminist drama that wowed plenty at this year’s Sundance." - 09/18/2018 Empire
"[A] gritty yet dreamlike semi-doc from Crystal Moselle in which a shy, determined skateboarder finds her clan." - 12/27/2018 Boston Globe
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