The Smell of Us (2014)
The Smell of Us (2014)
WEBRip | MKV | 720x384 | x264 @ 2012 Kbps | 84 min | 1,42 Gb
Audio: French AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps | Subs: English, Nederlands
Genre: Drama
WEBRip | MKV | 720x384 | x264 @ 2012 Kbps | 84 min | 1,42 Gb
Audio: French AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps | Subs: English, Nederlands
Genre: Drama
Director: Larry Clark
Writers: Mathieu Landais (screenplay) (as Scribe), Larry Clark (screenplay)
Stars: Lukas Ionesco, Diane Rouxel, Théo Cholbi
A group of skateboarders in Paris are at the heart of a loose coalition of young people who do drugs and have sex. Several of them are rent boys, including the Dorian Gray/Narcissus of the group Math (Lukas Ionesco) and his friend JP (Hugo Behar-Thinieres) who is in love with him, but is continually rejected because Math reckons he's only gay for pay. There's a girl who sometimes comes over and is jealous of JP's closeness to Math, and so she snitches on JP to his parents, and there's an indigent old man nicknamed Rockstar (Larry Clark) whom the group tolerate as a kind of mascot/despised pet. And there's Michael Pitt (who featured in Clark's "Bully") with a guitar in a couple of scenes looking slightly uncomfortable at being so clearly surplus to requirements.
This film could be an unofficial sequel to "KIDS" not because it deals with skateboarding 'kids' but because it shows how society has changed and how the youth of the world have adjusted / adapted to these changes. Social media, normalization of pornography, drug culture, homelessness, alcoholism, prostitution. it is hard to shine a light on the world and keep everyone happy, or maybe even keep within the moral law (if a moral law even exists anymore). Mr Clark is a fearless film maker he shows the world i have seen in my youth and can see it has become. Unfortunately because the subject material can be seen as salacious some of the image of our world that it reflects maybe lost. This film is risky. This film will offend many people. This film will remind many people of their youth. This film is worth your time.
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The Smell of Us (2014)
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