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I Love Boosters
Directed by: Boots Riley
Written by: Boots Riley
Starring: Keke Palmer, LaKeith Stanfield, Demi Moore
Synopsis: A group of shoplifters steal from a fashion icon’s department stores.
Genre: Adventure, comedy
Resources: IMDb, See it in theaters (recommended), or wait for the streaming release
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What it is.
A spoiler-free description of the movie.
A group of shoplifters steal from a fashion icon’s department stores.
If you like these things, then you’ll like the film.
→ Ear candy. Boots Riley teams up with Tune-Yards, his collaborators on Sorry to Bother You, to deliver one of the most defiantly whimsical film scores of the year.
→ Aquamarine (turquoise) and assorted monochromatic palettes. The film makes extraordinary use of set and costume to bring to life the vision of the demented fashion designer played by Demi Moore.
→ Surrealist rage against capitalism. Boots Riley is a sharp observer of capitalist hypocrisy. The film and design language he employs to deliver heady satire is genuinely in its own class.
→ Unexpected hyperbole. Not everyone will be a fan of this. If you like films that are unafraid to take big swings, Boots Riley is for you. I Love Boosters throws plenty of curveballs with real payoff.
What I think.
As a child, I was a terrible artist. My drawings were barely legible all the way through grade school. At what I suspect was the peak of my illustration talents, I was mass-producing stick people and square houses with triangle roofs. My art teachers usually admired my effort enough to give me a passing grade. But each of them was well aware I was not the prodigal artist an art teacher hopes to mentor.
I wished for the archetypal, inspired art instructor I’d seen in the movies. The one who could assure me that my art was beautiful because I was the one who made it. Someone who reaffirmed that individuality is the whole point. Someone who told me to get a little weird with it.
Boots Riley’s films are the kinds of works an inspired art teacher would hope for after giving such advice. If I were an art teacher, I’d remind my students what I learned from Chuck Palahniuk’s Consider This (if my memory is serving me):
No two people have ever walked into the same room. Paint what you see.
With I Love Boosters, Boots Riley puts forth another vibrant, acerbic, silly piece of filmmaking. Riley is all alone making movies like this. Nobody else does it. Nobody else can. Because only Boots Riley has walked into the room he’s painting.
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A fact or two about the production that makes you say “oh, neat.”
→ Keke Palmer’s signature dress was made out of car upholstery. Costume designer Shirley Kurata recalls, “[Car upholstery] is a trickier fabric to work with, and Keke was also doing stunts wearing that dress and therefore required to wear a harness under it. Also, it was difficult finding the perfect shade of turquoise, as some read too aquamarine or teal. I think that was the hardest one to design.”
