Moselle reproduces this with mellow tones and ambient sounds. So essential to skating is the feeling, the freedom, the flying – all shared with your tube-socked, tie-dyed posse. Moselles Skate Kitchen was nominated for the Best of Next Audience Award at this years Sundance Film Festival, where it premiered back in January. Crystal Moselle’s Sundance favorite Skate Kitchen has a relaxed energy that is perfectly reflected in Magnolia’s official poster. Regardless, the plot plays second fiddle to an atmosphere of nostalgia. At points this lack of drama makes investment in the characters a little tough, in spite of their individual vibrancy.
Friendship fallouts are revelatory life events for Camille to whom these girls become family. Its measured pace feels true to life Camille’s relationship with her protective mother ebbs and flows, and romances aren’t always what they seem. The skater girls of Skate Kitchen, from the director of The Wolfpack, on going from forging real-life skate friendships to starring in their own movie. She falls in with the in-crowd, has a falling-out with her mother, and falls. This relatability also extends to the simple plot, which is told in drags during afternoons at the skatepark and subway rides spent damning the patriarchy. 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. The years of chemistry between the crew and their familiarity with skater slang adds authenticity to the film’s dialogue, coming to them as naturally as an ollie. Real members of The Skate Kitchen play thinly disguised versions of themselves: they wear their own clothes (bejewelled with unique New York style) they skate on their home turf and much of the film recreates their lived experience.
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As for Betty, the real Skate Kitchen members are starring in the series too as continuations of their movie characters.
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Professional actors also appeared in the film too (including Jaden Smith). The film is based on Moselle’s 2016 short That One Day, which features much of the same cast. The real skate girls starred in the movie as fictionalized versions of themselves.