Patti Cake$
Regie:
Geremy JasperScenario:
Geremy JasperCamera:
Federico CescaMuziek:
Jason BinnickActeurs:
Danielle Macdonald, Mamoudou Athie, Cathy Moriarty, McCaul Lombardi, Dylan Blue, Adam Scarimbolo, Wass Stevens, Anna Suzuki, Bridget Everett (meer)Streaming (2)
Samenvattingen(1)
De 23-jarige Patricia Dombrowski (Danielle Macdonald), ook wel bekend als Patti Cake$ of Killa P, woont in een vervallen stadje in New Jersey. Ze droomt van een carrière als succesvolle rapper, maar ze is gewoontjes en wordt door de rappers op straat uitgelachen. Thuis zit ze vast tussen haar liefhebbende, invalide oma en haar verbitterde moeder. Daarom werkt ze keihard om extra geld te verdienen en grijpt ze elke kans aan om haar muziek naar buiten te brengen. Met de hulp van haar beste vriend Jheri (Siddharth Dhananjay), de mysterieuze muzikant Basterd (Mamoudou Athie) én haar oma, gaat ze de pestkoppen, onbetaalde rekeningen en onvervulde dromen te lijf! (Cinéart Nederland)
(meer)Recensie (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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