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Marfa Girl

  • 20122012
  • UnratedUnrated
  • 1h 45m
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Adam Mediano and Mercedes Maxwell in Marfa Girl (2012)
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A story centered on a directionless 16-year-old living in Marfa, Texas and his relationships with his girlfriend, his neighbor, his teacher, a newly arrived local artist, and a local Border ... Read allA story centered on a directionless 16-year-old living in Marfa, Texas and his relationships with his girlfriend, his neighbor, his teacher, a newly arrived local artist, and a local Border Patrol officer.A story centered on a directionless 16-year-old living in Marfa, Texas and his relationships with his girlfriend, his neighbor, his teacher, a newly arrived local artist, and a local Border Patrol officer.
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    • Director
      • Larry Clark
    • Writer
      • Larry Clark
    • Stars
      • Adam Mediano
      • Drake Burnette
      • Jeremy St. James
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    • Director
      • Larry Clark
    • Writer
      • Larry Clark
    • Stars
      • Adam Mediano
      • Drake Burnette
      • Jeremy St. James
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    • 17User reviews
    • 36Critic reviews
    • 37Metascore
    • Awards
      • 1 win

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    Drake Burnette in Marfa Girl (2012)
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    Adam Mediano and Mercedes Maxwell in Marfa Girl (2012)
    Larry Clark and Adam Mediano in Marfa Girl (2012)
    Adam Mediano and Mercedes Maxwell in Marfa Girl (2012)
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    Adam Mediano
    Adam Mediano
    • Adam
    Drake Burnette
    Drake Burnette
    • Marfa Girl
    Jeremy St. James
    Jeremy St. James
    • Tom
    Mary Farley
    Mary Farley
    • Mary
    Mercedes Maxwell
    Mercedes Maxwell
    • Inez
    Indigo Rael
    • Donna
    Tina Rodriguez
    Tina Rodriguez
    • Tina
    • (as Tina Thérèse)
    Jessie Tejada
    Jessie Tejada
    • Jessie
    Richard Covurrubias
    • Chachi
    Erik Quintana
    • Erik
    Lindsay Jones
    • Miss Jones
    Ulysses Lopez
    Ulysses Lopez
    • Ulysses
    Jimmy Gonzales
    Jimmy Gonzales
    • Oscar
    Elizabeth Castro
    Elizabeth Castro
    • Angie
    Nathan Stevens
    • Ty
    Rodrigo Lloreda
    • Rodrigo
    Sarah Laymon
    • Young Waitress
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    • Paul
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      • Larry Clark
    • Writer
      • Larry Clark
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    • Trivia
      The film premiered at the 2012 Rome Film Festival where it won top honors. On November 20, 2012, the film was released on Larry Clark's website priced at $5.99 for one-day streaming access. There are no plans to release the film in theaters or on DVD. Clark said this online-only distribution was a way of bypassing "crooked Hollywood distributors." On May 19, 2014, Spotlight Pictures announced that it had secured worldwide rights to distribute the film on all platforms. Streaming access to the film was then removed from Clark's website.
    • Quotes

      Tina: I've always been a singer my entire life, but in my work I just intuitively started using sound in order to help someone move blocked energy in their body but using sound to move it through.

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      Followed by Marfa Girl 2 (2018)

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    4/10
    Disappointing and lackluster comeback for Larry Clark
    After our mind blowing experiences with Bully and Ken Park I was expecting something much better than Marfa Girl could deliver. It seems that Larry Clark has taken the old 20th. Century criticisms of Ken Park to heart and toned down his productions to a level of mechanized banality. And the result simply doesn't work.

    The central characters are a community of Spanish Americans living somewhere in the deep south west who are driven to a point of madness by the mindless tedium of their existence. Adam is 16 and hangs around with a group of talentless drop out musicians and artists who spend their days drug taking, fornicating and banging instruments. The local policeman is a psycho maniac who gets turned on by pain whilst Adam's mother searches for cosmic vibes with pet birds and sound mediums.

    So far so good. But I'm afraid that's all there is. The plot is virtually non existent, the acting is labored and the dialog is almost incoherent. Of course, as with all Larry Clark films, the cast were all able to shed their clothes and copulate in front of the crew. We are treated to six young male naked backsides pounding up and down so convincingly that I doubt it was simulated. Larry Clark certainly had a good time watching their convulsions but this time he doesn't share it with the audience. Unlike Ken Park there is no shocking full on ejaculation to trade mark the production with crystal realism. In fact there isn't even an erect male full frontal to express the degradation of it all. All such visible stirrings are this time kept firmly within the lad's boxer shorts. So Larry Clark has finally descended into Hollywoodesque coyness with all the well ploughed banality and tedium that oh so common genre forces upon us. Yawn.
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    • Release date
      • December 17, 2014 (Australia)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official sites
      • Official site
      • Official site - LarryClark.com
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • I gränslandet
    • Filming locations
      • Marfa, Texas, USA
    • Production company
      • Marfa
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      • $2,000,000 (estimated)
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      1 hour 45 minutes
    • Color
      • Color

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