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The Smell of Us

2014 1h 32m Drama List
Reviews 23% Audience Score 50+ Ratings
Self-destructive teens go skateboarding, use drugs and turn tricks in Paris. Read More Read Less

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Clayton Dillard Slant Magazine The film is replete with Larry Clark's typically poseur-voyeur aesthetics. Feb 24, 2015 Full Review Jessica Kiang The Playlist With little story, no character development and no insight at all into a world that exists anywhere outside the mind, and perhaps the trousers, of its director, it's going to take weeks of showering to rid ourselves of "The Smell of Us." Rated: F Sep 16, 2014 Full Review Read all reviews

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Jerod S Parisian skaters have some major issues. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 12/22/23 Full Review Audience Member Nothing new from Larry Clark. The lives and times of a few young skateboarders in Paris. However, their lives consist entirely of skateboarding, getting high and having sex with strangers, sometimes for money... If you know Larry Clark's work, you'll know he generally likes making movies about young people, with a sleazy angle to it all. This was fine in Kids, which showed the emptiness of their lives, the harmful effects of their actions and how the cycle repeats itself in later generations. Bully was good too, as it had a crime-centred grittiness to it. However, everything else he has made just uses the Kids formula over and over again. Young people, being depraved. The Smell of Us certainly follows that formula, to the point that it should be called "Kids in Paris". Nothing new, and doesn't have the profundity that Kids has. It's pretty much sleaze and depravity for shock value sake. Avoid. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member Larry Clark explora novamente o universo pervertido dos jovens skatistas. Dessa vez, troca a HIV de "Kids" (1995) pela prostituição. Drogas, álcool, sexo e violência continuam presentes, num esforço documental excessivo. Clark tenta não julgar e trata o filme (de ficção, necessário salientar) quase como um estudo etinográfico, porém, se afastando tanto da história, acaba que perdendo o tato e a direção dela. O roteiro é tortuoso e superficial. A fotografia tenta emular, com arte, a falta de comprometimento da juventude com estética e profissionalismo e acaba soando amadora. Dentre algumas poucas boas cenas, o cineasta estadounidense decepciona bastante. Não recomendo. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member Pour le coup j'ai arrêté en route... Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Larry Clark's favorite topic about deviant teenagers' life, happening in Paris of France this time. And, once again, it's all about Clark's perverted obsession about young (boys, in particular) bodies. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Self-destructive teens go skateboarding, use drugs and turn tricks in Paris.
Director
Larry Clark
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Canadian French
Runtime
1h 32m