WHERE'S THE DRAMA?

Harmony Korine's classic tribal chronicle of his childhood, growing up in Ohio  - a film that .breaks all the rules of filmmaking. It mixes all film stocks, as well as occasionally adding documentary-style sequences. It does not have a nicely packaged plot and characters, but instead, is a series of fascinating, invigorating vignettes that form a mosaic of the small, backwoods town of Xenia, Ohio (tho the film itself was not shot there), where a disasterous tornado hit a few years before. The main people we follow, although there are many, many more, include two teenage boys (Jacob Reynolds and Nick Sutton) who kill cats and sell their corpses to a supermarket for money; three sisters (Chloe Sevigny, Darby Dougherty, Carisa Bara), two of which are albino; a lowlife (Max Perlich) who pimps his wife, who has down-syndrome; and a mysterious boy (Jacob Sewell) who wanders the town wearing big, pink bunny ears. Look for Linda Manz (The Wanderers, Out of the Blue), returning to the screen in this film after a long absence.

Posted by scripttools on February 23, 2012 at 5:33 PM

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