I clearly remember the year I consigned my Barbie dolls to the closet and started giggling with my friends over boys: I was twelve, and like Alice, the heroine of filmmaker Ruth Sergel's short profile, I was on the cusp of adolescence. Filled with self doubts, fluctuating hormones, and conflicting emotions, the pre-teen years are an awkward time in the life of an adolescent who is no longer a girl, but not yet a woman. Cusp follows the growing tension between Alice and her mother (which made me want to call my own mom to apologize for the grief I gave her way back then), as well as the shifting dynamics of her sixth grade social order, offering up a dead-on depiction of a girl's struggle to find herself, and all the attendant pain and excitement that comes with burgeoning adolescence. Highly recommended. Aud: J, H, C, P. (J. Asala)
Cusp
(2000) 25 min. $99: public libraries, $195: colleges & universities. Women Make Movies. PPR. Volume 17, Issue 3
Cusp
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