Either way, these are small films, neither of them perfect by any means, but still damn good. We start things off on this show by talking about how MoviePass users could be incentivized to see these small films, but since service is not long for this world it seems unlikely that’ll happen now. LISTEN: Finding lots of overlap in “ Blindspotting” and “ Menace II Society“ And you should really pay attention to them and watch! But the Summer movie season all but wrapped, blockbuster-wise, you say? So, now’s the time to use the last vestiges of your MoviePass ( if possible, yikes) to seek these smaller films out. On this episode of Adjust Your Tracking, Joe and I come of age (yet again) and put ourselves into a female perspective with indie releases ‘ Madeline’s Madeline‘ and “ Skate Kitchen.” Those films are slowly rolling out to arthouse theaters this month and soon after on VOD. It’s a girl power narrative that feels loose in its definition of girl - and certainly loose in its assumption of who those girls will date.Yet another reason why we need more feminine filmmaking voices… Sexual and gender fluidity feel possible for every character. The show has a very casual Gen Z approach to its characters’ identities. Whether these are friend bonds or flirting is unclear, because as Kirt says, “It’s not my fault if my ‘let’s skate’ and my ‘let’s smash’ vibes have some overlap.”īut even if neither of these pairings move into “let’s smash” territory, the trailer at least promises us romance between resident videographer Honeybear (Moonbear) and a character named Ash (Katerina Tannenbaum). Kirt and Indigo (Ajani Russell) bond as Kirt teaches Indigo to skate. It’s still tapping into a common, yet rarely portrayed, queer experience that complements the more defined queer storylines.Ĭamille and Janay (Dede Lovelace) bond as they search for Camille’s stolen phone. I’m not sure if Camille is even queer - her central romance in the show, like the film, seems to be with a guy - or if her gender questions will ever be directly addressed, but it doesn’t really matter. But I’m also excited that this complicated thread for Camille has carried over into the show. Nina Moran’s Kirt was explicitly gay in the film and is explicitly gay in Betty, and she is a soft butch comedic delight in both. It’s a poignant moment, made all the more poignant as we watch her inner conflict between girl and boy play out in her social life. It’s easy to project transness onto Camille here, but the in between feeling she describes is common for many queer people cis and trans. And when I noticed that I wasn’t going to be like that forever and I was growing up it was super embarrassing.” It was horrifying, because I was always dressing in boys clothes, playing football, and hanging out with my dad. “I used to stand in front of the mirror and punch myself in the chest, because I didn’t want to grow breasts. “Once I turned 11, I started changing physically,” Camille says in the film. The boys seem to accept her in a way they don’t accept the other girls, but that acceptance doesn’t mean ease or comfort. And like in the movie, Camille quickly becomes torn between the boy skaters and the girl skaters. While the show is more of an ensemble than the movie’s coming-of-age narrative, it still introduces Camille (Rachelle Vinberg) as the newcomer to the group. It also happens to tap into a queer experience rarely seen on screen. With naturalistic performances from the IRL Skate Kitchen and dreamy cinematography, the show captures the NYC skater girl subculture in all its appeal and personality. The 200 Best Lesbian, Bisexual & Queer Movies Of All TimeĪjani Russell as Indigo and Nina Moran as Kirtīut like the movie it’s based on, Betty is more than the pleasure of watching girls skateboard.LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now.
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