Gummo

1997

So going with a theme I decided to make this update featuring a few of the more batshit crazy movies I have, some I haven't seen like Gummo, Harmony Korine's first movie after writing the screenplay for Kids. And honestly Korine's movies are seriously hit and miss and you'll know within 5 minutes. I loved Spring Breakers way more than I expected too but The Beach Bum and Trash Humpers were absolute trials. Gummo is very much in the absolute trial section, with an awful lot about killing cats and a whole lot of poverty porn. I want to say something was worth watching in the movie so I'll go with the interactions between the 'Gummo Boy' (you'll know who that is when you see him) and his mother which livened things up a bit. Gummo Boy having a spaghetti meal and treat in the bath is definitely something in this movie.

Chloe Sevigny (and Carisa Glucksman) film clip (collage below)

Suite 16

1998

Suite 16 is one of those movies I've wanted see because I remember reading about it back in the day and baffled as to how it actually got a cinema release here. The movie is basically a cat-and-mouse tale about a young con artist (Antonie Kamerling) who fucks and robs lonely middle-aged women until he kills one woman and goes on the run in the hotel, ending up in the suite of a lonely disabled man (Pete Postlethwaite) who decides not to dob him in and lets him hide out if he delights in helping him live his life through him including fucking a helluva lot of prostitutes. But then the stakes get higher when the con artist finally leaves the hotel and meets a young woman (Géraldine Pailhas) who the disabled man lets into their little game. A French but mostly in English thriller that has its moments, Postlethwaite as a dirty old man not far removed from Peter Coyote in Bitter Moon is pretty good but the movie is all show and the plot is predictable with one exception involving a friend of the con artist who seems to come out of the woodwork to add unnecessary extra spice to the plot.

Suzanne Colin, Stephanie Jacquinot, Geraldine Pailhas, Valerie van Nitsen and Marielle van Sauers

film clip (samples below)

Pailhas college

Marielle van Sauer

Stephanie Jacquinot

Suzanne Colin

Valerie van Nitsen