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Skate Kitchen (2018)

Drama | 100 minutes
3,38 67 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 100 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Crystal Moselle

Stars: Rachelle Vinberg, Dede Lovelace and Jaden Smith

IMDb score: 6,8 (5.176)

Releasedate: 10 August 2018

Skate Kitchen plot

Introverted 18-year-old skateboarder Camille lives on Long Island with her single mother. After an injury, she promises her mother to stop skateboarding, but the urge to skate is too strong. On Instagram, she discovers 'The Skate Kitchen', a subculture of girls whose lives revolve around skating. She decides to visit them. The sexy and rambunctious girls from the big city soon take the naive Camille into their group. Soon she is part of stunt videos and they expose her to a riotous life she has never experienced before.

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tbouwh

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Too bad the script relies so much on aligned conflict situations; father and mother, mother and daughter, group of girls vs group of boys, and then again intern. The main character is sympathetic: she makes (judgment) errors and reacts against a mother who clearly has her best interests at heart, but she is also honest, and at many times moves between [ spoiler][the] abrasive lines. In that balance, it is usually pleasant to watch her personal quest.

A nice scene with the mother at the end makes up for it on a script basis, where the latter had previously disappeared very cheaply from the film.
Beautiful skate cinematography. I hadn't cast Jaden Smith with a revolver in my neck yet.

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Drulko Vlaschjan

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Beautiful sincere film in which most of it happens between the lines. I'm not sure if this falls under mumblecore, I'm not that deep into the subject matter, but I felt like it was all half scripted. Most of the conversations came across very naturally. Not everything was spoken either, as a viewer you just had to fill it in a bit yourself, which is effortless by the way.

Most of the characters were incredibly likeable. I especially liked the first half, when Camille is naturally included in that group where she is clearly not really (or not immediately) in place.

Also strong is how the use of mobile phones and social media is depicted, in a very natural way, without judgment, without emphasis, just as it is. This is difficult for fiction makers. A relationship that ends via a message is rather boring and in the case of kidnappings and accidents, something must always be thought of (phone broken, no coverage) to make it credible and, above all, exciting. Here the 'new' technology was simply part of life. Good job.

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Collins

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In Skate Kitchen, director Crystal Moselle zooms in on a group of female skaters in New York. A film about subcultures. An authentic film based on the female skateboard crew Skate Kitchen. Authenticity is guaranteed. The group really exists and the members of the group play themselves.

The idea of a feature film about the girl group arose when Moselle was commissioned by the fashion label Miu-Miu to shoot an advertisement with the group. Moselle saw the potential for a longer film and so the Skate Kitchen project was born, which gives a pointed picture of the life morals and living conditions of the female skaters

At the center is 18-year-old Camille. A timid woman who lives in Long Island with her mother. When Camille is injured in a botched trick with her skateboard (we learn later in the film that the term for it is "being credited"), her mother forbids her from skateboarding. Well, mother's will is not law. Camille doesn't give up and even joins the Skate Kitchen crew. It turns out to be the beginning of her road to adulthood.

The story is fairly well-organized and with elements of a love interest and some mutual hatred and envy, it is even somewhat conventional and predictable. Yet the film is more than just another easily fillable coming-of-age drama. The film is a nice mixture of fiction and documentary. With this style, Moselle very precisely captures the environment of the young women. With speed. With uplifting music. With dialogues that (at least to my ears) sound very authentic. And of course the wild skateboard rides and jumps are not missing.

Skate Kitchen is a turbulent sketch of Camille's journey to self-affirmation and friendship. Also a sketch of a skateboarding crew with girls who choose their own path against the expectations of their parents, their friends and their environment. Beautiful film.

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