Minding the Gap - Wikipedia
Minding the Gap is a 2018 documentary film directed by Bing Liu [1] and produced by Liu and Diane Moy Quon through Kartemquin Films. It chronicles the lives and friendships of three young men growing up in Rockford, Illinois, united by their love of skateboarding. [2]
Minding the Gap
Three young men bond together to escape volatile families in their Rust Belt hometown. As they face adult responsibilities, unexpected revelations threaten their decade-long friendship.
Minding the Gap (2018) - IMDb
Minding the Gap: Directed by Bing Liu. With Kent Abernathy, Mengyue Bolen, Nina Bowgren, Keire Johnson. Filmmaker Bing Liu searches for correlations between his skateboarder friends' turbulent upbringings and the complexities of modern masculinity.
Minding the Gap | American Documentary - POV
Minding the Gap is more than a celebration of skateboarding as a sport and a subculture. With infinite sensitivity, Mr. Liu delves into some of the most painful and intimate details of his friends’ lives and his own, and then layers his observations into a rich, devastating essay on race, class and manhood in 21st-century America.
Minding the Gap movie review & film summary (2018) - Roger Ebert
“Minding the Gap” was a lifetime in the making—an account of the lives of skateboarding friends on the cusp of adulthood, one of whom is the movie’s director-cinematographer Bing Liu. It would be impressive even without the palpable sense of connection and understanding that Liu brings to the material, but its easygoing intimacy is what ...
Minding the Gap: Trailer (Official) | Hulu - YouTube
Jul 18, 2018 · As the film unfolds, Bing captures 23-year-old Zack’s tumultuous relationship with his girlfriend deteriorate after the birth of their son and 17-year-old Keire struggling with his racial identity...
Minding the Gap - Rotten Tomatoes
Minding the Gap draws on more than a decade of documentary footage to assemble a poignant picture of young American lives that resonates far beyond its onscreen subjects. Though it runs just 93...
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Review: ‘Minding the Gap’ Is an Astonishing Film About American …
Aug 16, 2018 · “Minding the Gap” is more than a celebration of skateboarding as a sport and a subculture. With infinite sensitivity, Mr. Liu delves into some of the most painful and intimate details of his...
Minding the Gap | Films - CBC Gem
Jun 28, 2024 · First-time filmmaker Bing Liu’s documentary Minding the Gap is a coming-of-age saga of three skateboarding friends in their Rust Belt hometown hit hard by decades of recession. In his...
Minding the Gap (2018) - The Criterion Collection
With images of exhilarating poetry and a keen emotional sensitivity, Minding the Gap is a powerfully cathartic portrait of fledgling lives forged in trauma and fighting to break free. This extraordinary debut from documentarian Bing Liu weaves a story of skateboarding, friendship, and fathers and sons into a coming-of-age journey of courageous ...
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