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Trash Humpers
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While tickets to this screening are no longer available online, please note that 50 Rush Tickets at $10 each will be available at the Walter Reade Theater Box Office one hour prior to showtime. Distribution is on a first-come, first-served basis.
"...those familiar with Korine's anti-bourgeois oeuvre and know what they're in for -- will have a glorious time." –Variety
Trash Humpers
Harmony Korine, 2009, USA, 74m
The title is to be taken literally. Harmony Korine revisits the backwater horrors of Gummo, this time with a cruddy, bargain-basement form to match the degraded content. The episodic tale of a band of cretins (among them a masked and wigged Harmony and Rachel Korine) who go around brutalizing dolls, molesting plant life, and—yes—rubbing up against garbage cans, Trash Humpers suggests an exhumed underground movie, or a new form of freak-folk art. Among the parade of abjections: pancakes with dish soap, gay jokes without punchlines, Eng and Chang sock puppets. But then—a sweet lullaby to make it all better. Can something so regressive also mark the maturing of an artist? More than a prank, this is Korine’s purest film yet: a work of jolting humor, true ugliness, and unexpected pathos.
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