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That’s the most conventional thing in Moselle’s narrative, a budding romance, a crush. The problem? He has “history” with the girls. With his metallic-red hair and big camera, he stands out.Īnd he’s noticed Camille and sees a compelling video and photo subject in her mad skillz. But there’s one boy, Devon ( Jaden Smith), who seems to want to keep the peace. Skateboarding is just like surfboarding, Moselle suggests - tribal, primal, turf-protecting. The gender rivalry in the hot spots to skate is borderline violent. They pass the joint and talk about boys, or not being into boys, debunk tampon myths and maybe the difference between heedless, reckless boy skaters and themselves. Janay ( Ardelia “Dede” Lovelace) the friendliest one, with the best life situation - a nice house they can hang in, an indulgent, supportive dad who feeds them all on occasion and gives them a place to crash.Ĭamille has grown up without a lot of friends, so the girl talk is every bit as valuable to her as the skating camaraderie. Kurt ( Nina Moran) is the outspoken lesbian leader of the pack, who finds them room to skate in the crowded venues - “So many penises in the way!”
She’ll go to “the library,” the 42nd Street New York Public Library and environs, New York’s skateboarding Mecca.Īnd rough and tumble as they are, these girls - a floating group of five, seven or eight - welcome her in with a “What’s your name? You really shredded that!”
What mom doesn’t know is that Camille has found other female skaters, their online photos and videos luring her to Manhattan like the Siren’s song. And then goes behind her back with elaborate schemes to sneak her board out of the house while she goes to “the library.”
The injury (you’ll see) is painful, scary and bloody, and her mother gives her the “No more skating, PROMISE me” speech. She’s good enough to have a tiny taste of Instagram fame, but she’s an outsider, something underlined when she “credit-cards” on a fall. Her sole adventure - treks to skateboarding parks and favorite hangs where she tries to drop in to the boys’ tricks without snaking their line. They’re young women and this child of three or four has a new goal in life - to be like them, confident, athletic and brash, to own the concrete all through what used to be Hell’s Kitchen.Ĭrystal Moselle has followed up her critically-acclaimed, unconventionally-raised-boys documentary “The Wolfpack” with a bracing, documentary-real coming-of-age drama about girls who shred in a boy’s world, a skateboarder who finds her tribe and hangs with these kids who can shred, grind and bail when they fail with the best of them.Ĭamille ( Rachelle Vinberg) lives with her divorced nurse mom ( Elizabeth Rodriguez), done with high school and bored out of her skull on Long Island. For me, the money shot of “Skate Kitchen” is a little girl, clinging to her mom’s hand and spinning around in awe and adoration as a gang of load, assertive and a little unruly skateboarders swerve around them on a lower Manhattan sidewalk.