![]() Now they live in Nashville, and they like, sell children's clothing. I just like finding things out on my own." I was out there and I was learning things on my own. I moved to my grandmother's house and she was pretty much - she's kinda - not senile, but she really can't speak very well and she falls down sometimes and I could like, do whatever I wanted to, you know. "I mean, I love my parents, but it's always been the same thing it's always been people telling me what to do and I JUST CAN'T STAND THAT. I was sitting in my classrooms, and I would feel the teachers were never telling me anything I didn't know, or they were always trying to dictate to me how I should think, or. But ever since I was little I just felt like I wanted to be on my own. ![]() what kind of a family background do you have? I wouldn't ask this of somebody who had written a different kind of film, I said, but. Korine had his legs doubled under him and was kneeling on a couch, sipping ginger ale, talking fast, like one of those kids who wants to explain a Star Trek movie to you after you've seen it. The day after "Kids" played at Cannes, we talked about it on the Miramax yacht, out in the harbor behind the Palais des Festival. He discovered that, at 16, Korine had talked himself into a job as a production assistant on Paul Schrader's " Light Sleeper," a Susan Sarandon film, and had written screenplays in high school - before dropping out of high school, as he has dropped out of every other institution that tries to define him, including his family and his own generation. Larry Clark, a celebrated photographer who wanted to direct a feature, found Korine in Washington Square Park, hanging out with a loosely knit crowd of skateboarders. He is now, I think, 21 years old, although for Korine even that age seems so advanced that he is not quick to claim it. What is certain is that no other film at Cannes this year had a defender quite like Harmony Korine. The film is so unrelenting in its dark, savage attitudes that even skilled apologists for sex and violence are struck dumb for many of the movie critics at Cannes, "Kids" may at last have been the film that made them wonder if they were getting too old for their jobs. The attackers quote Francois Truffaut, who said there is no such thing as an anti-war film because all movies make war look exciting. The supporters of the film say it SHOULD be seen by those under 17, because it sounds an alarm about the dangers of promiscuous sex in the age of AIDS. It may be sold to another distributor, or, one hears, Miramax partners Harvey and Bob Weinstein may form a separate company to release it. ![]() If it gets an NC-17 rating, which is likely, Miramax will not be allowed to release it by its parent company, Disney. It cost $70,000, and was bought for $3.5 million by Miramax after its sensational reception at the Sundance festival in January. Both views had their defenders at Cannes I tend toward the first choice. Take your choice: It is either (1) a searing and accurate cry for help from a generation without hope, or (2) a cynical exploitation film that skirts the edges of kiddie porn. ![]() The movie, directed by Larry Clark, follows a group of Manhattan teen-agers through one long day of sex, booze, drugs, rock 'n' roll, skateboards, aimless violence and despair. Harmony Korine is the writer of " Kids," which, in a year when Cannes drowsed and twitched in the midday sun, at least provided life and controversy. ![]() I was the youngest in history I looked it up." I wrote my screenplay when I was 18 or 19. 'Cause no one's a teen- ager in art movies." ![]()
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