★★★★☆"I'm gonna finish my fuckin' symphony." That powerful phrase comes up as Kathleen Hanna recalls a musician friend's defiant reaction to a hideous assault in college. It's also a perfect encapsulation of the spirit of The Punk Singer (2013), Sini Anderson's scrappy, vital documentary on Hanna, the fiery frontwoman of seminal nineties punk band Bikini Kill and, later, Le Tigre. The film positions Hanna as a countercultural linchpin, around whom a new artistic movement formed. Through Anderson's lenses, the singer becomes the urtext of riot grrrl; a perfect embodiment of the faction's rough Diy aesthetics and propulsive feminist rhetoric. Anderson brilliantly captures this delicate balance of disparate drives.
- 6/23/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
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