Splendor (1999)
Directed by Gregg Araki
Veronica is a white-bread beauty searching for a good man in Los Angeles. While slam dancing at a Halloween rave, she meets Abel, a sensitive poet. Then she meets Zed, a supersexy tattooed drummer with incredible biceps. Who will she choose? Does she go for true love or cheap sex? She can't decide so she chooses both. But after managing to nurture a picture-perfect threesome, along comes Ernest, a rich movie director with deep baby blues that sweep Veronica off her feet. What's a girl to do now?
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Since then, Araki stunk up the joint with Three's Company-meets-'30s screwball comedy Splendor, and there's a lot more stinking coming from the direction of Skin, a slow, see-through drama based on a novel by Scott Heim.
More troubling by half is veteran maverick Gregg Araki's Mysterious Skin, which feels like a regression from the lawless peak of The Doom Generation (and even the pop-smirk of Splendor) in that his trademark ironic nihilism this time poses as a brazenly inappropriate reference to Psycho for giggles in a situation that calls for shits.
Gay-themed filmmaker, Gregg Araki, after a five-year hiatus following his 1999 film, “Splendor,” comes back to the big screen with his tale about two teenagers, sexually molested by their Little League baseball coach when just 8-years old.