Patti Cake$
Patti Cake$
Réalisation:
Geremy JasperScénario:
Geremy JasperPhotographie:
Federico CescaMusique:
Jason BinnickActeurs·trices:
Danielle Macdonald, Mamoudou Athie, Cathy Moriarty, McCaul Lombardi, Dylan Blue, Adam Scarimbolo, Wass Stevens, Anna Suzuki, Bridget Everett (plus)VOD (3)
Résumés(1)
Patricia Dombrowski, alias Patti Cake$, a 23 ans. Elle rêve de devenir la star du hip-hop, rencontrer O-Z, son Dieu du rap et surtout fuir sa petite ville du New Jersey et son job de serveuse dans un bar miteux. Elle doit cependant s'occuper de Nana, sa grand-mère qu'elle adore, et de Barb, sa mère, une chanteuse ratée et totalement instable. Un soir, au cours d'une battle sur un parking, elle révèle tout son talent de slammeuse. Elle s'embarque alors dans une aventure musicale avec Jheri, son meilleur ami et Basterd, un musicien mutique et asocial. (Diaphana Distribution)
(plus)Critiques (2)
I liked the scenes where Patti Cake$ with her chums was creating music. It came across really well. Her, Nigger Antichrist (who shouldn’t be called a Nigger, but Antichrist is okay) and a crazy Indian guy, who added a bit of Bollywood into the heavy rap, initially came across as the biggest amateurs. In time, however, they turned into pretty solid professionals, which is also a nice thing about the movie. What’s worse, though, is that I don’t really appreciate this kind of music. It didn’t make the impression as if they wanted to impress the serial murderers on Life Sentence Radio, nor as if did they wanted their music to be played by typical pop radios. It was a sort of small-scale film, which has a few good ideas about writing music. A person who knows what that’s about can at least appreciate the movie for that. Otherwise, if they don’t like the music, they’ll condemn it anyway.
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It’s hard to avoid comparisons to 8 Mile, but for a film that looks almost amateurish in places, or at least very independent, I sure as hell liked it. The music develops quite well here and the finale has its own momentum. I didn't mind any of the characters, and in fact it was quite easy to relate to them.
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