The Girls Guitar Club

Getting the link for this movie was rather like receiving an unexpected birthday present from an old high school friend. It gave me the strange feeling that someone else was remembering a part of my past--embarrassing, yet totally great. I would guess this movie is best enjoyed by former riot girls with a sense of humor. Because now we know what it's like to watch the artistic sweater unravel. And it's not pretty. Personal nostalgia aside, the actors who play the Girls of the Guitar Club are pretty dead-on with their earnest music-making/therapy sessions. I guess this movie may strike the same chord of familiarity for, uh, "mature" indie rock/punk girls that High Fidelity did with geeky record store boys. Too bad we only get fourteen minutes to relive the pimpled glory of our youth.

I know already that this is NOT a film for everyone, but if you have a quirky sense of humor, then I STRONGLY advise you to see THE GIRLS GUITAR CLUB! It's so funny and quirky and likable--you can't help but love it.

The film is about two young ladies who have ambitions of stardom as singers. It really looks as if they saw the movies JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS and BILL AND TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE and just imagined it was that easy to become superstars. The problem is that they have not a single ounce of talent and haven't even yet learned to play their guitars! However, instead of being grating or painful, hearing them play is great because the lyrics are so funny and they are so incredibly unaware of themselves. One part I particularly liked was when they were singing at a guy who was an independent musician. He could hear them exactly as they were, but when you heard what the two ladies heard, it sounded amazingly different!

Cute, clever, amazingly well-written--I really want to see more from the folks that made this wonderful short film.