GUMMO - Harmony Korine

Dienstag 23.04.2013

- ACHTUNG: screening bei Thomas - konspiratives Treffen um 20:30Uhr an den Boulefeldern am Paul-Lincke-Ufer! - 

20.30 Uhr
vorgestellt von Jan Krüger

USA 1997 | 89 Minuten | 35mm / 1:1.85 | Regie und Buch: Harmony Korine | Kamera: Jean-Yves Escoffier | Montage: Christopher Tellefsen | Produktion: Cary Wood | Darsteller: Jacob Sewell, Nick Sutton, Lara Tosh, Jacob Reynolds, Darby Dougherty, Chloe Sevigny, Harmony Korine u.v.a.


Gummo is a 1997 film written and directed by Harmony Korine. It is the first feature film directed by Korine. It was produced by Independent Pictures with a budget of 1.3 million dollars and filmed in Nashville, Tennessee, although the picture is set in Xenia, Ohio

Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gtY_545-ST8#!

Harmony Korine (2007 glaube ich) im Filmgespräch…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWdCZ2483do


Movie Info (rotten tomatoes)

In this elliptical ensemble piece, which marks the directorial debut of indie bad boy Harmony Korine, the teens of tornado-scarred Xenia, OH, kill cats, tape their boobies, arm-wrestle, bathe, cross-dress, huff glue, avoid perverts, pay to have sex with retarded girls, lift makeshift dumbbells to the strains of Madonna's "Like a Prayer," fight, cuss, shave their eyebrows, undergo cancer treatment, euthanize senior citizens, and pee on passing cars. A hallucinatory barrage of images and scenarios with little in the way of traditional plot, Gummo has been variously described as a surrealist joke, a visual poem, and a worm's-eye view of white-trash suffering.


Kritiken

No conceivable competition [this year] will match the sourness, cynicism and pretension of Korine's debut feature.
Janet Maslin, New York Times

Korine's objective is so narrow and mean, and his viewpoint so colored by smug, adolescent condescension, that Gummo comes off like a mean-spirited prank.
Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle
 
Problematic, troubling, dangerous even, but breathtakingly original, and absolutely true to the times. The cutting edge doesn't get any sharper than this.
Time Out

There is a piece of bacon taped to the wall behind Solomon in the bath scene. Concerning this, Werner Herzog told to The New York Times, "When I saw a piece of fried bacon fixed to the bathroom wall in Gummo, it knocked me off my chair."
http://www.harmony-korine.com/paper/index/i_gummo.html