

Like any coming of age stories there are as many tangled threads, as there are those that remain untethered.
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But the disjointed and confusing lesbian themed montage near the end of the movie didn’t read well or clearly enough to distill how Grace’s friend Andrea, played by Paige Hurd, chose the path of suicide. The lesbian themes with a “Mean Girls” tilt in the film, that was embodied in Mary, Raven-Symoné‘ s cheerleader persona, was a nice counter point to Grace’s somber and sober presence. I found some of the close-up choices created a nice distorted forced uncomfortable closeness in the story telling.

The movie tries some interesting cinematographic choices and story telling. “A Girl Like Grace” revolves around Grace’s downward spiral after the loss of her best friend, that intertwines her budding teenage sexuality and dissociative behaviors that drives her to experiment with passionless sex and drug use. The movie narration refers to Lisa as a “Haitian Princess”, that reference breathes into her character a sense of entitlement and narcissism breeds Grace’s lack of self-esteam, reserve and disenfranchisement from her familial bond. Ryan Distiny‘s character Grace is exceptionally bright but confined and suffocated with a somewhat disinterested fun loving single mother Lisa who is played by Garcelle Beauvais. “A Girl Like Grace” screened at this years LAFF as part of the “Zeitgeist” category.
