Gummo

Aroview: The writer of KIDS turns the camera on his hometown, Xenia, Ohio, selectively seeking out the disenfranchised, the bored and the ugly to distinctive effect.

Semi-improvised and using mainly non-actors, 'plot' is eschewed in favour of a colourful slate of largely unrelated snapshots, most successful when, like KIDS, it glimpses a rarely honest view of an adolescent underclass. Though sometimes undisciplined, the young talent (Korine was only 21), never comes up short on potent, imaginative images.

NZ International Film Festival 1998

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