‘Goldie’: Film Review

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Slick Woods plays the titular streetwise 18-year-old New Yorker in “Goldie,” a character who’s constantly running toward, or away, from things — a life of perpetual motion that doesn’t actual…

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, Goldie’s story is one of big dreams and harsh realities, and the difficulty in learning one’s limits. With vibrantly expressive aesthetics that match the energy of its defiant and distressed heroine, this impressive coming-of-age indie, simultaneously premiering in select theatrical markets and on-demand on Feb. 21, heralds the arrival of both a distinctive new filmmaking voice and a leading lady with charisma to burn.

Tattood, gap-toothed, scantily clad Goldie has grand music video ambitions. However, as evidenced by an early dance performance at the community center where she lives with her adolescent sisters Supreme and Sherri , as well as her mom Carol and her mom’s boyfriend Frank , her enthusiasm far outpaces her actual talent. With closely cropped hair dyed the color of her name, Goldie is a little girl in a grown woman’s body.

Sharing a single room with her entire clan, Goldie’s life on the fringe is hardly perfect, but it collapses completely when Carol is arrested for selling drugs, and the three kids are forced to flee the community center before child services can take them into custody. Thus begins an odyssey of frantic desperation, as Goldie attempts to secure some money and a stable place to lay low with Supreme and Sherri.

Buoyed by a Nathan Halpern score that melds Latin and Jamaican hip-hop tunes with more lyrical storybook melodies, and Shawn Peters camerawork which alternates between whooshing handheld pans and gauzy slow-motion, Jong’s stewardship is at once wild and controlled, which can also be said of Woods’ performance. Her naked anxiety hidden, often clumsily, behind her giant radiant smile, Goldie is a tough nut with the best of intentions but subpar ideas on how to make them a reality.

: A Film Movement release of a Vice Films and AGX production. Producers: Luca Borghese, Ben Howe. Executive producers: Danny Gabai, Natalie Farrey, Eddy Moretti, Shane Smith, Vincent Landay, Jim Czarnecki. Co-producer: Casey Feldman.: Director, writer: Sam de Jong. Camera: Shawn Peters. Editor: Robert Grigsby Wilson. Music: Nathan Halpern.

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