The movies of Harmony Korine are not the easiest to swallow but they are, for the same reason, the most interesting and stimulating.Someone told me once that Korine's films reminded him of Vice magazine; they both use "easy subjects" to shock the audience such sexual taboos, violence and marginal people.
I can agree on that but i find a big difference; the "poetry" of it all; Harmony's films are truly poetic, the music, the characters, everything has some kind of purity that I don't find on Vice; I personally find Vice a punch in the stomach. Korine's stories are a punch in the soul.
One of my favourite movies was Julien Donkey-Boy, but the one which wardrobe is definitely something to talk about is 1996's Gummo, a movie that the great Werner Herzog called "a masterpiece".
Gummo is the the follow up in the lives of a bunch of kids from Xenia, Ohio, where a tornado during the 70's left the town in ruins and whose inhabitants didn't quite recover from the event.Kids are bored and apathetic, what leads them to spend their time in the best way they can: these include sniffing glue, killing cats, having sex, riding dirt bikes, listening to black metal, and meeting a cavalcade of quirky, bizarre, and scary people.
Chloë Sevigny was the Costume Designer for this movie and her work is superb.
Contemporary movies "cancel" very often the work of costumes designers because everyone has a very clear understanding of contemporary clothing; they live with it.
But people don't realize that each person dress different and that is what makes him / her the person he / she is. It's the job of a costume designer to create a character through clothing and put on an actor what the character would wear. Therefore the less you notice the wardrobe, the better the job is done because it means you know the character wearing that clothing.
So it's quite difficult to make a contemporary wardrobe interesting and fun, but that's exactly what Chloë got with this movie.




---------Las películas de Harmony Korine no son precisamente las más fáciles de asimilar, pero por el mismo motivo son, a mi modo de ver, unas de las las más interesantes del cine contemporáneo.
Una vez alguien me dijo que las películas de Korine le recordaban en cierta manera a la revista Vice, que ambas recurren a temas "demasiado fáciles" para prococar al espectador, como son la violencia, los tabues sexuales y la gente marginal.En cierta manera es verdad pero creo que la diferencia estriba en la "poesía", de la que carece totalmente la revista y de la que le sobra a las películas: donde una te pega un puñetazo en el estómago, la otra te lo da en el alma. Básicamente.
Una de mis pelis favoritas es Julien Donkey-Boy pero para hablar de vestuario tenemos que hablar de Gummo, que el gran director alemán Werner Herzog llegó a tildar de "obra maestra".
La pellicula narra las peripecias de un grupo de chavales del pueblo de Xenia, en Ohio, Estados Unidos, donde un tornado duranto los 70 dejó al pueblo con la mitad de habitantes y en un estado de lo más desalentador.
Chloë Sevigny diseñó el vestuario de esta pelicula e hizo un trabajo fascinante. Siempre es complicado para los diseñadores de vestuario diseñar para una pelicula contemporanea porque la ropa pasa desapercibida por todos (cuantos Oscars se dan a peliculas que no sean de época?) ya que todos tenemos pleno entendimiento de ella; la vivimos dia a dia.
Elegir la ropa adecuada para crear un personaje y a la vez hacerlo interesante es dificil y puñetero. Pero ahí tenemos Gummo, en el que cada uno de los personajes lleva lo mas estrafalario que te puedes imaginar, siendo precisamente eso lo que te esperas, y no te esperas de cada uno de ellos.


12 comments:
I agree with you 100% on this. Anybody else styling this film just wouldn't have gotten it so right. Also, the soundtrack was so killer and along with the metal band t-shirts, fit the film perfectly.
Me encanta esta película! El trabajo de Chloë como diseñadora de vestuario es genial. Consiguió dar a todos los personajes el toque (necesario) de pueblerinos dejados de la mano de Dios.
LOL @ the description of the kids' activities. Isn't that what all the youngsters do these days? ;-)
i am going to rent this movie - if possible- as soon as i can. it looks intriguing. is it somehow like kids? i saw it has the same producers. kids made me really sad - is gummo that doing, too?
fenke: it's definitely not a pleasant movie. It can be really disturbing in some moments. I think to really enjoy it you need to open totally your mind and try not to get it too "by heart". For the same reason it is a very poetic movie, the soundtrack is wonderful and the two main characters, the kid in the bath tube and the kid with the bunny ears are really something to remember.
Post genial!!! Chica te superas. No la he visto pero lo haré. Con tu escrito has levantado en mi la sana curiosidad de verla. Gracias! Un beso.
now i have to rent it!
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I love Julian Donkey Boy, just seeing Werner Herzhog playing the father is worth it. Gummo on the other hand is a lot harder to stomach, I couldn't watch any of the scene whipping dead cats. THe rabbit ears and Chloe are amazing though.
great post. i like that line about how his work is not a punch to the stomach, but a punch to the soul.
i really want to see this movie!!
wow, i didn't know chloe s. did the costumes for this film - though i've never seen any of korine's films. The reason? Truthfully I've ALWAYS shied away from them...!
Oh God!
That spaghetti in the dirty bathtub scene was disgusting.
The thought of food in the bathroom makes me wanna barf.
so great. i **love** the images!
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