Larry Clark film Ken Park at Venice Film Festival
Larry Clark's new film Ken Park premiered at the Venice Film Festival in the experimental "Upstream" competition. The film's explicit sex scenes, including incest and intergenerational sex, have reportedly "sent ripples through" the festival. "The story of four dysfunctional families in the skateboarding hotbed of Visalia, California had hard-core sex involving adults and teen-agers which will keep the film out of most cinemas.... 'But I didn't want to cut a single frame,' the cult film director and photographer told a crowded news conference. 'All my life I've seen the camera turn away, but these scenes are part of the reality ... of this porno-generation.'" Local Venice paper Il Gazzettino reported, "Among the scenes that have caused the biggest sensation is one of oral sex between a mature woman and an underaged boy." More and more.
