Directed by:
Harmony KorineScreenplay:
Harmony KorineCinematography:
Jean-Yves EscoffierCast:
Jacob Sewell, Nick Sutton, Jacob Reynolds, Chloë Sevigny, Harmony Korine, Max Perlich, Linda Manz, Bernadette Resha, Lara Tosh, Darby Dougherty (more)Plots(1)
Harmony Korine’s debut feature is an audacious, lyrical evocation of America’s rural underbelly, and an elegy in the southern-gothic tradition of William Faulkner and William Eggleston. Shot in Korine’s native Nashville - standing in for the tornado-ravaged Xenia, Ohio - the rough-hewn film follows two young friends, Tummler and Solomon, as they ride around town, huffing glue and hunting stray cats, their every local encounter charged with vaudevillian anarchy as well as deep pathos. At once transgressive and empathetic, disturbing and undeniably beautiful, Gummo is a one-of-a-kind portrait of angelic and devilish souls caught in a cultural void, circumscribed by poverty and the depleted, alienated spiritual life of late-twentieth-century America. (Criterion)
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This was a very strange experience that I don't really want to repeat. It's not something that fulfills me, but then again it's something that shows what films can also be. It's very raw, very realistic, but at the same time it's too dark, so much so that you don't really want to see the entire thing. However, you probably won't forget it right away, which is a pretty good sign for the film after all.
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