![]() Now comes "Wassup Rockers," containing one and probably two deaths, a lot of tension between Latinos and African Americans, and run-ins with cops and home owners. ![]() "Ken Park" (2002) was bold in its frankness about teenage sexuality a success at Telluride, it was never released commercially in the United States, not because of its content but because, Clark says, a producer never cleared the music rights. " Bully" (2001) saw how a group dynamic works to drive teenagers toward a murder none of them would have done alone. His first film was the powerful " Kids" (1995), which launched the acting careers of four first-timers: Rosario Dawson, Chloe Sevigny, Leo Fitzpatrick and Justin Pierce, and the writer-director Harmony Korine. The movie evokes the sense of time unfolding thoughtlessly for kids who have no idea what could happen next.Ĭlark usually makes movies about teenagers and has a rapport with them that's privileged or creepy, depending on your point of view. ![]() ![]() You could think of Larry Clark's "Wassup Rockers" as "Ferris Velasquez's Day Off." In Los Angeles, a group of Latino friends, all about 14, spend a very long day traveling from their homes in South Central to Beverly Hills and back home again, and although they are light-hearted and looking for fun, they don't have Ferris Bueller's good luck. ![]()
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