Totally F***ed Up, 1993

Dir. Gregg Araki

Programmed by Alyssa

Language: English
Runtime: 78 min
Format: DCP

A delirious mix of punk nihilism and deadpan irony, the first film in Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy puts an audaciously queer spin on Jean-Luc Godard’s classic Masculin féminin. Across fifteen jagged episodes, Totally F***ed Up plunges headlong into the lives of a group of queer, disaffected Los Angeles teenagers who form a kind of makeshift family as they navigate desire and heartbreak, societal and familial rejection, and the alienation of growing up gay in an era of relentless moralizing. Both a defiantly raw anthem of outsiderhood and a furious reckoning with all-American homophobia, Araki’s answer to the 1980s teen comedy captures youthful angst with an immediacy that still bruises.

– The Criterion Collection

SHOWTIMES

Friday, April 17
6 pm & 8:30 pm

Saturday, April 18
6 pm & 8:30 pm

Sunday, April 19
3 pm

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