I’ll take a dozen boxes…Cookie Queens is a treat
For Kaci Alysa Nahmias’ documentary focusing on four enterprising Girl Scouts during the Girl Scout cookie-selling season is one of the most charming, funny, and yes, I’ll say it, life-affirming docs I’ve seen. Its stars are Olive, a twelve year old cookie selling machine who is articulate without being precocious; Nikki, from Chino, California, at nine, whose two older sisters are cookie queens of legend; Shannon Elizabeth, a First Nations girl from El Paso, Texas, whose specific story had me a little stressed as her parents, supportive though they be, were banking their mortgage payment on her; and Ara, a five-year-old diabetic who had me wrapped around her little finger. All four are what a bygone generation would call “plucky”, but to stop there renders a disservice. I’ll admit that I was expecting something more hard-boiled. I thought there would be more of a critique of late-stage capitalism and how it’s infected even the youngest among us or maybe even how these kids are ex...
