SKATE KITCHEN precisely captures the experience of women in male-dominated spaces and tells a story of a girl who learns the importance of camaraderie and self-discovery. Director Moselles first feature was the 2015 documentary The Wolfpack, and while Skate Kitchen is scripted, it does take inspiration from its cast, members of the real all-girl skater crew whose name provided the movie’s title. Writer/director Crystal Moselle immersed herself in the lives of the skater girls and worked closely with them, resulting in the film's authenticity, which combines poetic, atmospheric filmmaking and hypnotic skating sequences. She falls in with the in-crowd, has a falling-out with her mother, and falls for a mysterious skateboarder guy (Jaden Smith), but a relationship with him proves to be trickier to navigate than a kickflip. In the first narrative feature from THE WOLFPACK director Crystal Moselle, Camille, an introverted teenage skateboarder (newcomer Rachelle Vinberg) from Long Island, meets and befriends an all-girl, New York City-based skateboarding crew called Skate Kitchen. “Skate Kitchen” is unfailingly compassionate to, and genuinely appreciative of, the people it chronicles.CLICK HERE for an Exclusive Music Box Interview with SKATE KITCHEN Director Crystal Moselle The movie’s disinclination to judge doesn’t deprive it of a point of view.
There’s a boarders’ party, fueled by drink and smoke, that turns into a polysexual near-orgy from which Camille demurs and one character seems determined to live asexually, at least for the time being. Rather, it acknowledges they exist and that young people are not all of one mind in their responses to them. Unlike, say, the alarmist 1995 “Kids,” “Skate Kitchen” doesn’t portray rampaging teenage hormones as a unilaterally malevolent force. In the first narrative feature from The Wolfpack director Crystal Moselle, Camille, an introverted teenage skateboarder (newcomer Rachelle Vinberg) from. The teenage Camille (Rachelle Vinberg) doesn’t look like much of a shredder in the opening scene of Skate Kitchen, a fiction feature. It’s also very frank in showing what these kids today get up to, and while Camille turns 18 in the course of the film’s narrative, she looks younger, and she projects a vulnerability that makes the viewer feel protective, even as she proves to be pretty tough and assertive about her desires.
Many of its moments perfectly capture the delight and dread of a summer in the city at an age when you may think you’re invincible, in spite of all the everyday defeats life may be handing you. The Oriental Theatres parent organization, Milwaukee Film, offers exclusive monthly screenings of festival-quality films, ticket and merchandise discounts. “Skate Kitchen” is a depiction of a particular kind of hangout freedom that’s at its most beautiful when it’s nearly languid, as characters sit on tar-beach rooftops taking in the city at twilight, or navigate street corners on their boards in relaxed arcing motions.
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Jaden Smith, the cast’s sole celebrity component, plays Camille’s potential love interest, a very low-key skater with ambitions to be a photographer, and to his credit, he blends in with the rest of the cast with nary a hiccup. 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. I call “Skate Kitchen” a fictional feature, but it’s more of a doc-narrative hybrid almost all the members of Camille’s crew are part of a real skating collective that lends the movie its title. Skate Kitchen stars Rachelle Vinberg, Dede Lovelace, Nina Moran, Jaden Smith, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Kabrina Adams, Ajani Russell Specifications Genre - Drama Country - USA Language - en Original Release Year - 2018 Run Time - 1h 46min. Rated R: for drug use and language throughout, strong sexual content, and some nudity - all involving teens