Une journée dans la vie d'un groupe d'adolescents qui va un peu partout dans New York patinant, buvant, fumant et déflorant des vierges.Une journée dans la vie d'un groupe d'adolescents qui va un peu partout dans New York patinant, buvant, fumant et déflorant des vierges.Une journée dans la vie d'un groupe d'adolescents qui va un peu partout dans New York patinant, buvant, fumant et déflorant des vierges.
- Prix
- 1 victoire et 5 nominations au total
Chloë Sevigny
- Jennie
- (as Chloe Sevigny)
Johnathan Staci Kim
- Korean Guy
- (as Johnathan S. Kim)
Luis Núñez
- Luis
- (as Luis Nunez)
Histoire
Le saviez-vous
- AnecdotesThe film received an NC-17 rating from the MPAA (no one under 18 admitted). Clark appealed the rating, and lost. The MPAA recommend that Clark not cut the film because they felt it would lose some of its impact.
- GaffesWhen Jennie and Ruby are talking while waiting in the clinic for their test results, Ruby's lips do not match the audio in one of the shots.
- Citations
Jennie: What if you can't make yourself happy?
The Taxi Driver: Then I don't know. You know what you do then you forget, you block it out... If you want to be happy don't think... if you stutter don't talk.
- Générique farfeluAt the end of the credits it says: "The book 'KIDS' is available from Grove Press and contains photographs from the film, production stills and the original screenplay." and "A portion of the proceeds from this film will be donated to teen crisis organizations."
- Autres versionsFor the UK cinema version 59 secs was cut by the BBFC to remove shots of young Nick's chest being kissed by an equally young girl and images of a sleeping child during the scene where Casper rapes Jennie, as this footage contravenes the Protection Of Children Act. In August '99 the British Board of Film Classification awarded the film an 18 certificate for video distribution, but with 51 seconds of cuts. The same footage was removed and the scenes re-edited to avoid shots of the child, and this same version was later issued on DVD.
- Bandes originalesPow
Written by Adam Horovitz, Adam Yauch, Mike D (as Michael Diamond) and Money Mark (as Mark Nishita)
Performed by Beastie Boys (as The Beastie Boys)
Courtesy of Capitol Records
Under License from CEMA Special Markets
Published by PolyGram International Publishing, Inc. and Brooklyn Dust Music
Commentaire en vedette
Telly is one of a large group of young friends who live for sex, drugs and pleasure with little thought of responsibility or morality. Telly in particular loves sex with girls even younger than him, and they all have to be virgins to please him. However one girl who has only had sex with Telly finds herself testing positive for HIV. She sets out to find him before he can spread the disease any further. I saw this when it came out as it entered the UK in a rage of tabloid anger and middleclass `we'll all be killed in our beds' style furore. Back then I was maybe more giving or maybe more determined to appreciate it simply because I thought the papers had overreacted. I still think the tabloids kicked up a storm for nothing but now I see past the worthy face the film has on and see it in a different light.
The film is worthy, no doubt, those individuals who live like this do exist and are a real problem to themselves and others, however the film tries really hard to shock us. Nobody in this film is `normal' or in anyway considerate they all only care about themselves, they are all open to rape a girl who says no, or beat someone to near death for bumping into them. This leads us to think that everyone is like this and to all be shocked. Yes some (many?) young people like sex and drugs but how many live like this?
But the film wants to over-blow things simply because the shock value adds value to the subject. So we have rape, beatings, AIDS being spread, children barely 10 smoking weed etc and the film has a mix of shock but also a sort of sensationalisation about it like Clarke is rubbing his hands behind the camera ad directing, saying `worse, worse, more, more etc'. This only stops for the final shot and line where the film condemns this but up till then you'd be forgiven for not seeing the judgement.
The cats are most unlikely versions of Kevin Smith's Jay but without the crude wit or charm they make Jay look like a man about town. I know that's there characters but some of them just deliver crude skater stereotypes. I know they're all first time actors but still several have done better since. Fitzpatrick is OK but his character is one-dimensional and we never get to see him have deeper stuff to deal with. Pierce is again a cartoon but at least appears to have something else behind his eyes shame he's dead now. Sevigny is good as is Dawson but that's mainly because they do have something of value to say. The rest are just all there to `shock' us `oh, look' says Larry Clark `they're doing drugs, there's girls kissing girls, there's fights and shocking sex isn't it all lovely and terrible!!!?'.
Overall it's worth a watch maybe once simply because this is a lost world that I'll hopefully never see. But don't get sucked in by the film pretending to be important or smart it's neither simply because it only wants to shock us and it revels in every disgusting or shocking frame.
The film is worthy, no doubt, those individuals who live like this do exist and are a real problem to themselves and others, however the film tries really hard to shock us. Nobody in this film is `normal' or in anyway considerate they all only care about themselves, they are all open to rape a girl who says no, or beat someone to near death for bumping into them. This leads us to think that everyone is like this and to all be shocked. Yes some (many?) young people like sex and drugs but how many live like this?
But the film wants to over-blow things simply because the shock value adds value to the subject. So we have rape, beatings, AIDS being spread, children barely 10 smoking weed etc and the film has a mix of shock but also a sort of sensationalisation about it like Clarke is rubbing his hands behind the camera ad directing, saying `worse, worse, more, more etc'. This only stops for the final shot and line where the film condemns this but up till then you'd be forgiven for not seeing the judgement.
The cats are most unlikely versions of Kevin Smith's Jay but without the crude wit or charm they make Jay look like a man about town. I know that's there characters but some of them just deliver crude skater stereotypes. I know they're all first time actors but still several have done better since. Fitzpatrick is OK but his character is one-dimensional and we never get to see him have deeper stuff to deal with. Pierce is again a cartoon but at least appears to have something else behind his eyes shame he's dead now. Sevigny is good as is Dawson but that's mainly because they do have something of value to say. The rest are just all there to `shock' us `oh, look' says Larry Clark `they're doing drugs, there's girls kissing girls, there's fights and shocking sex isn't it all lovely and terrible!!!?'.
Overall it's worth a watch maybe once simply because this is a lost world that I'll hopefully never see. But don't get sucked in by the film pretending to be important or smart it's neither simply because it only wants to shock us and it revels in every disgusting or shocking frame.
- bob the moo
- 6 sept. 2002
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Détails
Box-office
- Budget
- 1 500 000 $ US (estimation)
- Brut – États-Unis et Canada
- 7 412 216 $ US
- Fin de semaine d'ouverture – États-Unis et Canada
- 85 709 $ US
- 23 juill. 1995
- Brut – à l'échelle mondiale
- 7 412 216 $ US
- Durée1 heure 31 minutes
- Couleur
- Mixage
- Rapport de forme
- 1.85 : 1
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