![]() ![]() Well, the party line isn’t necessarily wrong. Among many other things, Clark is regarded as a cynical, two-faced moralist who pretends to be wringing his hands about contemporary teenagers’ hyper-sexualized lives, even as he exploits those teenagers’ bodies at every turn and as a wildly undisciplined storyteller who throws his plot to the wayside when the opportunity arises for his attractive young actors to remove their clothes and parade around in designer underwear. “This turd is just a self-indulgent nihilistic nightmare of masturbation fantasies by an old man for old men who can rationalize the abuse of the work itself away,” wrote the Internet columnist David Poland, in a review that seemed to encapsulate the party line on Clark. Which is to say: It was greeted like a crime against humanity. ![]() When it first began screening on the film-festival circuit, Ken Park-which was co-directed with cinematographer Ed Lachman, and which also features a hard-core scene in which a scrawny teenager (James Bullard) performs cunnilingus on his girlfriend’s mother (Maeve Quinlan)-was greeted like just about every Larry Clark movie before it, including Kids (1995), Another Day in Paradise (1997), Bully (2001), and the made-for-cable Teenage Caveman (2002). ![]()
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