Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang (2012)
Foxfire (2012)
BRRip | AVI | 720 x 304 | XviD @ 1600 Kbps | English AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps | 143 min | 2,05 Gb
Genre: Drama
BRRip | AVI | 720 x 304 | XviD @ 1600 Kbps | English AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps | 143 min | 2,05 Gb
Genre: Drama
Upstate New York, 1953, a working class neighborhood in a small town. In this violent post-war culture controlled by men, a group of headstrong teenage girls unite into a sisterhood of blood: they form the Foxfire gang, a secret female-only society, recognized by the flame tattooed on the back of its members’ shoulders. “Foxfire” for pretty foxes, but also “Foxfire” for fire and destruction. Legs, Maddy, Lana, Rita and Goldie cannot accept any longer to be humiliated and discriminated against for being poor, and being girls. Headed by the feisty Legs, the girls set on a trip for revenge, and try to pursue their impossible dream: living according to their own rules and laws, no matter what. But there’s a price to pay…
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At first glance, Joyce Carol Oates' novel about a girl gang in 1950s upstate New York would seem to be an odd match for Palme d’Or–winning French director Laurent Cantet. But look a little further and the connections are obvious. From his startling first films, Ressources humaines and L'Emploi du temps, Cantet had a remarkable ability for dealing with life’s unfortunates and the downtrodden. In the superb Entre les murs, he showed an unusual sympathy for the plight of disadvantaged, multi-ethnic high school students. Both of these ideas are taken up with a vengeance in this adventuresome adaptation, Cantet's first period piece and his first film to be made in North America.
Told in the form of a memoir by Maddy, one of the members of the gang, Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang looks back on a succession of events that shaped the lives of five small-town girls from working-class families. Fed up with the stifling sexism of the era, fearless leader Legs, along with friends Maddy, Lana, Rita and Goldie, decides to use novel guerrilla tactics to strike a series of blows against the predators and male chauvinists in their town. Forming a gang and initiating each other with a symbolic tattoo, the Foxfire girls pledge to uphold female pride and solidarity. Soon they aren’t just harassing lecherous men, but playing Robin Hood by making donations to the needy. But things take a darker turn when Legs hatches a desperate and dangerous scheme to keep the embattled gang together.
Shooting in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Cantet and his art director do a stunning job of recreating the look and feel of fifties America, and the film remains faithful to Oates’ novel (unlike the 1996 version starring Angelina Jolie). No detail escapes their attention, but it’s also the spunky flintiness of the girls that sustains Foxfire — as in Entre les murs, Cantet also works with a cast of first-timers — all in the service of this vision of a world where young girls find the gumption to organize and fight back against men who treat them as playthings.tiff.
Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang (2012)
