Glimmerubro
It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.
Tayyab Torres
Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.
Lachlan Coulson
This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.
grantss
Nothing new from Larry Clark.The lives and times of a few young skateboarders in Paris. However, their lives consist entirely of skateboarding, getting high and having sex with strangers, sometimes for money...If you know Larry Clark's work, you'll know he generally likes making movies about young people, with a sleazy angle to it all. This was fine in Kids, which showed the emptiness of their lives, the harmful effects of their actions and how the cycle repeats itself in later generations. Bully was good too, as it had a crime- centred grittiness to it.However, everything else he has made just uses the Kids formula over and over again. Young people, being depraved.The Smell of Us certainly follows that formula, to the point that it should be called "Kids in Paris". Nothing new, and doesn't have the profundity that Kids has. It's pretty much sleaze and depravity for shock value sake. Avoid.
Nothing_man
The Smell of Us, although sounding like a good film in its festival write up is in fact the worse and hardest things I've ever had to watch.The film is void of narrative or character development and in its place is scene after scene of vulgarity passed of as artistic.The Smell Of Us, made be questions the entire notion of film as a medium. Do yourself a favor and on the night you were planning on seeing this film, do something more enjoyable and less harmful to your psych instead, like punching yourself in the face. or sitting alone in a dark room. not only a bad film, but a bad moment in human history.
kevintempel
Getting a bad vibe after yet another young sex and drugs film from Larry Clark.just saw this youtube version it wasn't 90 minutes but 75 minutes long. bad quality in youtube, but it is there.budget of €3.500 000.- what a complete waste of film production money, if they can't even put a decent youtube video, and why youtube first? Well it isn't worth seeing in cinema anyway. But a youtube movie shouldn't cost €3,5 million to make.complete movie; waste, drugs, prostitution, skateboard, alcohol, sex, sex and more sex. preferably with young looking skaters. It seems to be Larry Clark's fetish to make sex films with young adults/teens. Have FBI looked into this? there is NOTHING new about this, it is just yet another Larry Clark film with the same theme as many others, and it gives me a bad vibe.
tbhamfog
This film could be an unofficial sequel to "KIDS" not because it deals with skateboarding 'kids' but because it shows how society has changed and how the youth of the world have adjusted / adapted to these changes. Social media, normalization of pornography, drug culture, homelessness, alcoholism, prostitution. it is hard to shine a light on the world and keep everyone happy, or maybe even keep within the moral law (if a moral law even exists anymore). Mr Clark is a fearless film maker he shows the world i have seen in my youth and can see it has become. Unfortunately because the subject material can be seen as salacious some of the image of our world that it reflects maybe lost. This film is risky. This film will offend many people. This film will remind many people of their youth. This film is worth your time.
