Gummo

Dir. Harmony Korine, English, 1997

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Thu 16 September 2010 // 20:00 / Cinema

Korine's directorial debut and a cult film following the success of his writing in Larry Clark's controversial KIDS. Also starring Chloe Sevigny (and Rosario Dawon), GUMMO is a series of seemingly unrelated vignettes depicting the hopeless, nihilistic lives of the residents of a small Ohio town, Xenia, previously stricken by a tornado.

A "white trash nightmare" full of ultra-dark realism and positively demented humanism, GUMMO i...s enthralling and disturbed.

TRAILER: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35Hg8bIFu-A

PRIZES AND NOMINATIONS

Nominated for the Grand Prix Asturias Best Feature award at the Gijón International Film Festival in 1997.

Winner of the Special Jury Award at the Gijón International Film Festival in 1997.

Winner of the Open Palm Award - Special Mention at the Gotham Awards in 1998.

Winner of the KNF Award at Rotterdam International Film Festival in 1998.

Winner of the FIPRESCI Award - Honorable Mention at the Venice Film Festival in 1997.