Nowhere (Araki, 1997): Barbican Cinema, 6pm
This film is part of the Chronic Youth Film Festival at the Barbican.
Chicago Reader review:
Try to imagine a Russ Meyer porn movie about LA teenagers crossed with
an early scatological John Waters opus and punctuated with outtakes from
Natural Born Killers; you’ll have a rough idea what Gregg Araki is up to in this hyper, scattershot movie, whose own publicity compares it to a Beverly Hills 90210
episode on acid. Even if the compulsively kaleidoscopic visual style
(ten times too many close-ups for my taste) and scuzzy dialogue are such
that only one moment out of seven makes much of an impression, there’s
still plenty to be amused or nauseated by: phrases like “Whatev” (a
reductio ad absurdum of west-coast verbal sloth), “Dogs eating people is
cool,” and “You smell like a wet dog”; a face getting beaten to a pulp
by an unopened can of tomato soup (making one wonder if Campbell’s paid
for the product placement); blood-spattered walls color coordinated with
a tacky floral bedspread; flashes of kinky straight sex and tender
homoeroticism; periodic appearances by the Creature From the Black
Lagoon; and so on—adding up to loads of flash and minimal substance. The
cast includes James Duval, Rachel True, Christina Applegate, Debi
Mazar, and Chiara Mastroianni, and there are loads of guest appearances.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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