Minding the Gap - Kritiken

With its loose observational style, “Minding the Gap” plays like a grittier variation on Michael Apted’s “7 Up” series...

... its easygoing intimacy is what puts it over the top.

...a remarkable coming-of-age documentary.

Its skating sequences are impressive, but it’s the intimate examinations of fracturing friendships and emerging adulthood that make Minding The Gap surprisingly resonant.

Det her er ikke fiktion. Det her er et virkeligt og rørende indblik i tre unge menneskers liv.

...a picture of the struggling working class and all its woes: shit jobs, shut-offs from the electric company, depression, toxic masculinity, and, most especially, domestic abuse.

A poignant tribute, at any rate, to the lost innocence of skateboarding.

...explains to us the fundamental reality that everyone has his or her reasons, even for doing terrible things.

What was initially a lighthearted snapshot of bruised knees and broken boards suddenly becomes an intimate portrait of bruised psyches and broken homes.

Bing Liu skapar med unik fingertoppskänsla ett fängslande porträtt av hur det är att vara ung idag