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  • Gregg Araki – Totally F***ed Up (1993)

    1991-2000ArthouseDramaGregg ArakiQueer Cinema(s)USA

    Quote:
    Six queer teenagers struggle to get along with each other and with life in the face of varying obstacles.

    Fernando F. Croce wrote:
    Gregg Araki once described Totally F***ed Up, his follow-up to the 1992 New Queer Cinema staple The Living End, as a “rag-tag story of fag-and-dyke teen underground…a kind of cross between avant-garde experimental cinema and a queer John Hughes flick.” The statement attests not only to Araki’s committed radicalism, but also to his sense of how the politics of pop culture play to alienated youth. He probably loved a rave from a San Francisco paper hailing the film as “a ‘90s version of The Breakfast Club.”Read More »

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