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"The Fits (Holmer, 2016)"


  

          

http://www.thefitsfilm.com/



http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/03/movies/review-in-the-fits-a-graceful-tale-of-a-girl-who-follows-her-own-beat.html?_r=0

"“The Fits,” a dreamy, beautifully syncopated coming-of-age tale, takes place in and around a recreational center that could not look less inviting. It’s the usual impersonal slab, the kind that municipalities have been building for decades to educate, or sometimes just to warehouse, restless young bodies and minds. The girls who congregate at this particular center in Cincinnati, though, have their own desires, which they express with fists and feet, grace and power. They move — fluidly, ferociously and with escalating mystery — to their own transporting beat."

The same holds true of “The Fits,” a singular first feature from the young director Anna Rose Holmer, who’s made a movie that can feel like a memory. The story — Ms. Holmer wrote the script with one of the movie’s producers, Lisa Kjerulff, and its editor, Saela Davis — is elemental, elliptical and radiates out from its sun, the 11-year-old Toni (the wonderful Royalty Hightower). One of those quiet, watchful girls (either naturally shy or tactically stoic), Toni all but lives at the recreational center, specifically the boxing club where she works out with her older brother, Jermaine (Da’Sean Minor), throwing punches and counting situps as she gasps for her next breath."


Just saw it tonight
I liked it leaning towards liking it a lot
But I'm still processing
Y'all should see it and discuss
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Saw this tonight. It's lovely.
Jun 14th 2016
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:)
Jun 22nd 2016
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