Various California teenagers (James Ransone, Tiffany Limos, Stephen Jasso) display disturbing behavior, including casual sex and violence. Then the camera goes up so we can see that it is in fact him peeing. Ken Park Photos View All Photos (20) Movie Info. There is another scene where we see one character pee. One of the best and most important films I saw in 2003 was Ken Park by the prolific Larry Clark his third in twelve months, after the remarkable Bully. Starring: James Ransone, Tiffany Limos, James Bullard, Stephen Jasso. We have to infer that they have done this before, but the dialogue (written by Clark’s Kids collaborator Harmony Korine) gives us no clues. Directed by: Larry Clark, Edward Lachman.
No point to any of it.Ĭharacters have explicit threesomes with each other, and yet they have shared no other scenes together. Co-directed with his Bully cameraman Ed Lachman and based on an old screenplay by Harmony Korine (he wrote for Clark circa Kids, but then they fell out), this is the. Then there is a close-up on his penis, with obviously fake cum coming off of it. We watch him ejaculate (and this is clearly not faked). We watch him masturbate with his grandmother’s robe sash around his neck. The kid is an awful actor and we never learn anything about him, except that he enjoys auto-erotic asphyxiation. These incidents are supposed to be daring, but come off as just dumb. One character in particular curses at his grandmother and his grandfather for cheating at Scrabble. It is a shocking film, but not one that should be banned. The characters are moronic, and portrayed without insight or feeling. The eroticism in 'Ken Park' as when Claudes father molests him while the boy sleeps, or when Rhonda ties her boyfriend up to her bed is there to explicate subconscious aspects of the characters inner lives. It can be simultaneously riveting and off-putting and repetitive.īut in Ken Park, Clark fails to establish a balance. But Bully walks Clark’s curious line that he navigates in Kids (but not in Teenage Caveman), where he’s either showing us idiots and how empty their lives and brains are, or he’s making rather unpleasant exploitation movies and he has no knowledge or interest in the characters. (International sales: Fortissimo Film Sales, Amsterdam.) Produced by Kasander, Jean-Louis Piel. Ken Park is a 2002 erotic drama which revolves around the abusive and dysfunctional lives of several. This isn’t a surprise coming from director/photographer/borderline pedophile Larry Clark, considering he made the quite similar Bully, which also featured hateful, inarticulate, stupid teenagers engaging in self-destructive behavior, all of it leading to acts of horrifying violence. Ken Park U.S.-Netherands-France Production: A Cinea/Kees Kasander production. Ken Park tries so hard to shock that it ceases to be anything but strained and obvious.
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