Gummo

4.50
    Gummo
    1997

    Synopsis

    Solomon and Tummler are two teenagers killing time in Xenia, Ohio, a small town that has never recovered from the tornado that ravaged the community in the 1970s.

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    Cast

    • Jacob ReynoldsSol
    • Linda ManzSolomon's Mother
    • Chloë SevignyDot
    • Carisa GlucksmanHelen
    • Darby DoughertyDarby
    • Jacob SewellBunny Boy
    • Mark GonzalesChair Wrestler
    • Daniel MartinJarrod Wiggley
    • Harmony KorineBoy on Couch
    • Max PerlichCole

    Recommandations

    • 60

      Empire

      As horribly funny as it is depressing, it gets pretty hard to take after a while, especially for anyone who is a committed cat-lover. A melancholy edge of deliberate poetry mutes the ugly realism but also serves to make bearable what might otherwise be an hour-and-a-half of hell.
    • 50

      San Francisco Chronicle

      It's an interesting technique -- the blurring of reality and "movies" -- but 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.
    • 50

      Chicago Sun-Times

      The sideshows in Gummo offer no particular form -- or even formlessness -- despite the visual momentum created by Jean Yves Escoffier's arresting camera work. [6 March 1998, p.40]
    • 25

      San Francisco Examiner

      Korine's trying to offer a radical vision of rotten America, but the whole thing feels warmed over.
    • 25

      Baltimore Sun

      Gummo is one of the most repellent cinematic efforts in recent memory. Whatever small audiences it attracts -- and they will be drawn mostly by the prospect of watching something "shocking" -- will wind up leaving the theater in a state of disgust. [21 Nov. 1997, p.5E]
    • 10

      Los Angeles Times

      If nothing else, Gummo does challenge perceptions and presumptions: Is the perspective of youth in this country really so devoid of significance, and their existence so septic? These are good questions, although "Gummo" provides neither answer nor solution, nor even thematic cohesion.
    • 0

      Austin Chronicle

      Now I realize my confessed appreciation for Kids will thoroughly bugger my credibility in describing Gummo with phrases like “appalling,” “gratuitously cruel,” and “exploitative,” but the unmitigated repulsiveness of this film pretty much rules out all subtler options.
    • 0

      The New York Times

      October is early, but not too early to acknowledge Harmony Korine's Gummo as the worst film of the year. No conceivable competition will match the sourness, cynicism and pretension of Mr. Korine's debut feature.

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