Patti Cake$ can’t complain about a lack of love. Both at Sundance and at Cannes, where the American indie film closed the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, audiences went wild, creating a mini-hype.
In Brussels, Bozar is screening the film at the end of its summer programme, which was focused on the exhibition “YO. Brussels Hip-Hop Generations”. There is a connection between the two. Patti Cake$ is the stage name of one Patricia Dombrowski from New Jersey who has lost her heart to hip hop.
She is not a bad rapper, but her looks, background, and family life are holding her back. She is a chubby white woman who is stuck in the suburbs. She works in a bar where her jealous mother regularly falls off the stage blind drunk, and she works extra odd jobs to pay for her grandmother’s medical treatment.
She starts a band with some other local misfits and dreams of her big breakthrough. We’ll certainly be seeing lead actress Danielle Macdonald again. But otherwise, this well-meaning underdog story with an unveiled ambition to please its audiences is not particularly spectacular.
> Patti Cake$. US, dir.: Geremy Jasper, act.: Danielle Macdonald, Cathy Moriarty, Bridget Everett
> Première: 29/08, 20.00, Bozar. Release: 30/08
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