daily stream: girls give screaming voice to adolescent angst
2014’s *We Are the Best!* is available on lots of services in the US and the UK
If this past weekend’s Grammy Awards got you jonesing for some more good music… well, probably give 2014’sWe Are the Best! a miss. The teen girls at the center of this exuberant rock ’n’ roll comedy, from Swedish filmmaker Lukas Moodysson, don’t know what chords are or what constitutes a harmony, but they’re not letting that stop them from forming a punk band. These 13-year-olds become some of the most memorable movie kids ever as they embrace their adolescent angst and give it screaming voice (I love the song they write about how pointless and boring sports are in the grand scheme of injustice in the world). There are too few movies about girls at this precarious age, when their unique personalities get subsumed in the perceived need to conform to narrow ideals. Happily, that never happens here. (Read my review.)
US: stream on Magnolia Selects (via Prime); rent/buy on Prime and Apple TV
UK: stream on Arrow (via Prime); rent/buy on Prime and Apple TV; rent on BFI Player
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