Gummo (A WTF Friday screening) / USA/ 1997/ Dir: Hamony Korine/ 89 Min /
Harmony Korine’s debut feature is an audacious, lyrical evocation of America’s rural underbelly, and an elegy in the southern-gothic tradition of William Faulkner and William Eggleston. Shot in Korine’s native Nashville—standing in for the tornado-ravaged Xenia, Ohio—the rough-hewn film follows two young friends, Tummler and Solomon, as they ride around town, huffing glue and hunting stray cats, their every local encounter charged with vaudevillian anarchy as well as deep pathos. At once transgressive and empathetic, disturbing and undeniably beautiful, Gummo is a one-of-a-kind portrait of angelic and devilish souls caught in a cultural void, circumscribed by poverty and the depleted, alienated spiritual life of late-twentieth-century America.
“A true science fiction film … The entertainment of the future.”
Werner Herzog
“Problematic, troubling, dangerous even, but breathtakingly original, and absolutely true to the times. The cutting edge doesn’t get any sharper than this.”
Tom Charity, Time Out
“The gentleness of Korine’s gaze is the most enduringly unique aspect of Gummo … Korine locates innocence in the perverse.”
Simran Hans, Sight and Sound
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