The Maiden
Buy ticketsDebuting Canadian delivers top-notch North American indie in emotionally moving teen portrait that initially chimes with Linklater and Korine.
Two teenage boys get around by skateboard in the middle of nowhere, explore a riverbed, spray-paint a railway bridge – but only one of them gets home. A lonesome teenage girl is let down by her only friend and disappears. What begins as a “normal,” realistic portrayal of slackers soon shifts to a lyrical, tender portrait of a vulnerable time in life, here with grief as a catalyst. Foy blends beautiful nature and beauty with darkness and death, as he – with documentary observational style – follows the leading people with a 16-mm camera and opens doors to other worlds. We also get karaoke versions of “Fernando” and “The Final Countdown,” and even a black cat back from the dead, which thankfully gets better treatment than the cats in Gummo.
- Camilla Larsson