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It's okay, not as good as their previous films but still enjoyable
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
01/13/23
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After nearly 30 years, Larry Clark is still making the same film. Skater Kids, wasting time, getting drunk and having sex. This film called Marfa Girl isnt even about a girl, the main character is a guy. Larry Clark needs to do something new as its getting creepy that hes making this type of film in his 70s.
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Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars
01/15/23
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I'm a huge Larry Clark fan which motivated me 2 watch this in the 1st place. I just watched Kent Park. I'm still wrapping my head around what I just watched but if u like Larry Clark movies and r familiar with his style then definitely watch this. 2 all others...proceed with caution lol EXPLICIT!!!
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
01/31/23
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Adam (Adam Mediano), a directionless 16-year-old living in the working class US/Mexico border town of Marfa, Texas, who is approaching his seventeenth birthday in a matter of days. He is beginning to become sexually curious, hoping to get lucky with his sixteen-year-old girlfriend Inez (Mercedes Maxwell), who he trusts completely, but also being tempted with sex from numerous other people, including his twentysomething neighbor, an aggressive local artist and his high school teacher. While an unhinged, misogynistic border patrol agent watches over the neighbourhood. What ensues is a web of sex, drugs, and violence as the Latino skater punks adjust to their gritty, aimless life in the dead end town...
Despite winning the award for best film at the Rome Film Festival, the major critical attention directed at "Marfa Girl" has generally been more lukewarm in its enthusiasm. Boyd van Hoeij of Variety praised the cinematography while directing criticism at the acting of some cast members and the generally shallow plot, mentioning that "the sex and nudity are as plentiful as the plot and teen characters are thin." Jordan Mintzer of The Hollywood Reporter praised some aspects of the dialogue and cinematography, but said that the cinematography was "nothing new" and looked at times as if "it was ripped out of a Levi's ad." "Marfa Girl" is classic Larry Clark turf with themes of destructive adolescent behaviour, broken families, teenage angst and sex. Meaning we have seen it before and there´s nothing new under the sun. Frankly it´s quite interesting how Clark manages to be so static in his development as a director even if movies like "Kids", "Bully" and "Ken Park" were great films and has its place in the genre itself. But, how many times can we see the same topics being dragged out and dissected over and over by the same director? And in "Marfa Girl" Clark throws in a subplot concerning a misogynistic border patrol agent (a strong performance by Jeremy St. James) that sort of diverts the focus in a strange way. There´s strong topics and Clark manages to keep everything in a documentary style that works in certain scenes and in other it just becomes static, slow paced, bad and all the long pointless monologues are hardly that intriguing. And the acting is of course not spot on all the time, which I assume is what Clark wants. There´s impact, but less context. The person that stands out for me in "Marfa Girl" is the gorgeous and intriguing Drake Burnette who plays Marfa Girl. Her strong opinions, her will to explore her sexuality, her intellect, her beauty and her sexual glow.
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
02/21/23
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Had potential, but squanders it.
A movie set in a small Texas town, near the border with Mexico. Follows
a few characters in their dull, everyday lives, and how they are all
affected by the presence of the Border Patrol.
The movie had heaps of potential, especially with regard to the issue
of illegal immigration in the US. How this affects race relations,
especially with Hispanic people, was also a great possibility.
However, while it touches on these issues, there is no real, or at
least thoughtful, examination. The movie might as well have been set in
the middle of the US in an all-white community it was so superficial.
The setting is really just a vehicle for a random, pointless plot (and
I use the word "plot" very broadly here). The conclusion is quite
impactful, but it almost doesn't have a context, what goes before is so
unfocused.
Many of the scenes are there just for shock value, but you expect
nothing less from writer-director Larry Clark (director of Kids, Bully
and Ken Park).
Dialogue often consists of long monologues, telling some tale of personal woe but with no real context, interspersed with simplistic, pop, cereal-box philosophy. It often feels like you're watching someone being interviewed for a documentary, especially when that someone doesn't really want to be there.
Throw in performances that vary from OK to utter rubbish and you have
an incredibly poor movie. Some of the performances are among the worst
I have ever seen in a movie (and I've seen some of Kristen Stewart's
movies...). Lindsay Jones as the teacher is mind-bogglingly bad.
Avoid.
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars
01/20/23
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Larry Clark demeure ce cineaste de l'observation, mais il lui manque de la rigueur pour lier ses intrigues erratiques. Toujours aussi transgressif mais trop approximatif dans son traitement, caricatural dans le propos et peut-etre un peu prisonnier de ses obsessions.
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Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars
01/15/23
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