Lexi Cinema introduction to this 'London Film School season' screening:
Welcome to your neighbourhood film school, a new series of hosted screenings exploring film history and introducing current debates in cinema culture. Fill in the gaps in your film knowledge and join the conversation. London has one of the most exciting and diverse cinema scenes in the world, and we welcome the writers, critics, curators and cultural commentators of the capital to NW10.
This film is introduced by Observer film critic Simran Hans. Here is her Observer feature on the movie.
Times review:
This intimate, revelatory documentary about the lives of seven teenage girls in Brooklyn, New York, was shot over three years by Jenny Gage and her cinematographer husband, Tom Betterton. First seen aged 15, the girls seem obsessed with the superficial, but as their confidence with the constant camera grows, they reveal lives of complexity, agony, courage and silly joy. Sometimes their parents seem to be the children; sometimes their friends are their enemies, and it all plays out, fuelled by dope and drink, in jam-packed, cramped apartments in Clinton Hill or on the open spaces of the beach at what looks like Coney Island. The hand-held camera and natural light gives a woozy, dreamlike feeling to scenes, and the teenagers’ faces and costumes are their stories. In particular, the worlds of Lena, who is neglected as much as she is parented, and two sisters Ginger and Dusty, make the most compelling material. By the time the girls are 18, heading for college or compromise, you feel deeply involved, tender with worry about their futures.
Kate Muir
This intimate, revelatory documentary about the lives of seven teenage girls in Brooklyn, New York, was shot over three years by Jenny Gage and her cinematographer husband, Tom Betterton. First seen aged 15, the girls seem obsessed with the superficial, but as their confidence with the constant camera grows, they reveal lives of complexity, agony, courage and silly joy. Sometimes their parents seem to be the children; sometimes their friends are their enemies, and it all plays out, fuelled by dope and drink, in jam-packed, cramped apartments in Clinton Hill or on the open spaces of the beach at what looks like Coney Island. The hand-held camera and natural light gives a woozy, dreamlike feeling to scenes, and the teenagers’ faces and costumes are their stories. In particular, the worlds of Lena, who is neglected as much as she is parented, and two sisters Ginger and Dusty, make the most compelling material. By the time the girls are 18, heading for college or compromise, you feel deeply involved, tender with worry about their futures.
Kate Muir
Here (and above) is the trailer
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