Photo of Tiffany Limos by Larry Clark.
Everyone has a different opinion of the guy who did Kids with Harmony Korine. Some say Larry Clark is a visionary auteur who bravely portrays the decay of innocence in today’s youth. Others insist he’s a grizzled old pervert who uses big movie budgets as excuses to film nubile youngsters naked and fucking. Some are freaked by the man but can’t turn down gratuitous close-ups of Bijoux Phillips’ ass in jean shorts. Others are would-be Pauline Kaels who brave the seediness because Mr. Clark is an artist with something to say.
They’re all wrong.
The truth about Larry is that he’s emphatically all of the above. He is a perv who gets off on statutory-daring sex. He’s not a saint or a sinner. It’s never that simple. He is both. He is a brave director that makes raw and dangerous films that scare you into an erection. There is no better example of all this than his latest film, Ken Park, a poignant look at poverty and pain that will make even the most hardened, overcoat-wearing adult theatergoer go, “Howe-lee-fuh-cking-shit.”
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Photo of Harmony Korine by Terry Richardson.
Photo of Larry Clark by Tiffany Limos.
The kids of Ken Park:(left to right) Daniel Helwick, Steven Jasso, Adam Chubbuck, Mike A. Photo by Larry Clark.
