Skate Kitchen
In New York, the girl has a friendship relationship with a group of girls' skiers. After a long period of isolation, the girl begins to understand the true meaning of the friendship and sacrifices that are evident in those positive relationships. New life and behavior appear for the first time in adolescent life on the outskirts of New York City.
8 July 1998, Malibu, California, USA
1 April 1970, Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
27 December 1980, New York, USA
October 02, 2018
There's a sweet nostalgia and important moments, those magical, too brief weeks of summer vacation and the bliss of finally finding a place you belong.
September 30, 2018
I can't shake the inkling that it would've worked better as straight documentary.
September 28, 2018
Moselle is famous for her documentary The Wolfpack. Skate Kitchen isn't quite a documentary but it's not exactly a drama either.
October 05, 2018
They are non-professional actors playing versions of themselves, and the naturalism of their conversations--and of their gliding excursions through the streets of Manhattan--is wonderful.
August 17, 2018
I was impressed by the tonal and aesthetic balance that Crystal Moselle finds here.
October 09, 2018
The quasi-documentary from The Wolfpack director Crystal Moselle will grind its way into your heart.
August 16, 2018
Moselle believes in the power of girls. The friendships through which Camille learns how to be loved become the anguish that breaks her heart and the forgiveness that humbly heals her.
August 21, 2018
"Skate Kitchen" conveys the simple, exhilarating thrill of daring to claim social space, and proceeding to occupy it, with defiance and ecstatic grace.
October 05, 2018
On a skateboard, there's no room for thinking. It's just feeling and doing, which is what makes it such a symbol of emancipation in Crystal Moselle's joyful and wise new film.
August 17, 2018
In Skate Kitchen, the kids come as they are, and they're wildly fascinating.
August 16, 2018
A touching ode to the rewards and challenges of female friendship...
August 31, 2018
Less a movie than a visually striking meditation on Being a Girl These Days.
