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some job in telling the story of three middle-age
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Under the tutelage of queer Sleater-Kinney
Lange leads a stellar cast as Arvilla, a widow who
veteran Carrie Brownstein, Gossip vocalist Beth
has one week to bring the ashes of her husband,
Ditto and other camp counselors, the girls form
Joe, to his daughter. She gathers her friends
bands with names like the Screaming Monkeys,
Margene (Kathy Bates) and Carol (Joan Allen) for
P.L.A.l.D. (People Lying Around in Dirt) and the
a road trip from Utah to Santa Barbara in Joe’s
Juicy Tanglers. During the course of the week, each
1966 Pontiac Bonneville. The performances by
band writes a song and stares down stage fright in
these great actresses are just delightful to watch,
order to perform in front of 750 people.
and this is a truly great tale about friendship, love
In addition to comprehensive interviews with
the four showcased campers, filmmakers ^hane
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on the significance of the camp from the coun
Brett Morgen (The Kid Stays in the Picture) fur
selors and the camp founders. Although Girls
thers his reputation as a bold stylist with this
Rock! raises extremely relevant and provocative
flawed but electrifying documentary about Abbie
sociological issues, its biggest flaw is often failing
Hoffman, Black Panther leader Bobby Seale and
to probe beyond a glossy presentation of these topics.
others who faced trial on charges of inciting riots
When filming the camp scenes, King and
at the tumultuous 1968 Democratic National
Johnson wisely stick to simple editing and camera
Convention. Using archival footage, Morgen skill
techniques and allow the girls to provide all the
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fully interweaves scenes of peace rallies with dev
fireworks. When they present statistics about teen
astating images of police brutality. To depict the
girls, however, they kick into ballistic mode,
trial itself, he goes out on a limb with mixed
accompanying the factoids with screaming music
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and 2000 mph montages of old educational films
alternately hallucinogenic and hokey. Nick Nolte,
and computer animation.
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Hank Azaria, Mark Ruffalo and the late Roy
We learn statistics like these: “Four out of five
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girls in eighth through 11th grade have been sex
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ually harassed by a schoolmate” and “In 1970 the
average age for girls to start dieting was 14. By
1990 it was 8.”
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cuss some of these societal ills with the campers,
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story about a group of Jewish men who secured
tively inconsequential band squabbles, time that
preferential treatment at a concentration camp
could have been spent giving the documentary the
by making fake loot for Nazis toward the end
intellectual edge it would need to be a standout
of World War II. It’s a technically accom
film.
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None of the campers or counselors discuss their
cinematography. But as a drama it’s never com
sexuality in the movie, although there is a strong
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hint that 15-year-old Laura—a Korean who lives
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some predictable plot twists and an emotional
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To their credit, the filmmakers proceed to dis
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King and Arne Johnson include observations from
the girls’ family members and running commentary
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women and their extraordinary friendship. Jessica
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group with a few other girls, she demurely asks one
of her new bandmates, “Will you be my life partner?”
Girls Rock!
Girls Rock! opens March 7 at Cinema 21, pre
Meet Laura, Amelie, Misty and Palace. The
ceded by a benefit VIP party hosted by Portland
amiable and occasionally poignant documentary
City Commissioner Sam Adams from 5 to
Girls Rock! introduces us to these feisty young
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(Tickets are $25 from rsvp@girlsrockcamp.org.)
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Laura is among the feisty young campers showcased in the documentary Girls Rock!