The Smell of Us (2015)
Directed by Larry Clark
Self-destructive teens go skateboarding, use drugs and turn tricks in Paris.
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What critics compared The Smell of Us to
Consider his depiction of old flesh longing for young, in which Caine and Keitel, reclining one night in a hot tub, watch in awe as a nude Miss Universe (Mădălina Diana Ghenea) settles in across from them; now compare this to the skin-crawling discomfiture of Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise: Love (2012), or Larry Clark stepping in front of the camera to slurp up a teenager’s toe jam in The Smell of Us (2014).
At least, these themes roam freely within the director's work, though only rarely (in, say, Bully) do Clark's films distance themselves enough from their material in order to gesticulate meaningful expression.
Oh, and there’s Michael Pitt (who featured in Clark’s “Bully”) with a guitar in a couple of scenes looking slightly uncomfortable at being so clearly surplus to requirements.