Larry Clark, a film festival favorite, as well as a renowned
photographer and independent filmmaker extraordinaire, will see his
award-winning slice-of-life drama, Marfa Girl, released (at last) on
DVD from Breaking Glass Pictures on June 23.
A limited theatrical release was launched in late March, but
no box office tallies have been reported as of yet.
Marfa, Texas is famous, in film lore, as the shooting
location for the 1956 film release of Giant, starring James Dean,
Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson. Other
than that it is nothing more than a speck on the West Texas map, populated by
less than 2,000. Interstate 10 (between
El Paso and San Antonio) passes to the north — you literally have go out of
your way to get to Marfa.
That’s the symbology that Clark was likely looking for in
selecting both the location and the title of his tale about Adam (Adam
Mediano), a pot-smoking slacker teen whose only skill in life appears to be
skateboarding.
He has other interests,
sex, and for a 16-year-old he’s managing to juggle a couple of “relationships”
— but that “skill” makes it just a matter of time before someone ends up
barefoot and pregnant.
The arrival of the new girl in town (Drake Burnette), an
“artist,” who seems more a cross between a sex therapist, a seducer of willing
boys and a budding porn starlet, quickly complicates things for Adam … in
Marfa, everyone knows what everyone else is doing in no time at all and that
means the ever-present U.S. Border Patrol.
Conflict, boredom, sex and drugs … like we said, you have to go out of
your way to get to Marfa.
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