
The story of Adam, a directionless 16-year-old teenager living in the working class town of Marfa, Texas, and his sexual relationships with his teenage beanpole girlfriend Inez, twenty-something neighbor, Donna who's got a child and a b.f. in jail and casually decides to have sex with Adam in lieu of a birthday present, an aggressive local artist, and his pregnant high school teacher,Miss Jones while an unhinged, misogynistic border patrol agent, Tomek watches over the neighb... (Full plot summary below)
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The story of Adam, a directionless 16-year-old teenager living in the working class town of Marfa, Texas, and his sexual relationships with his teenage beanpole girlfriend Inez, twenty-something neighbor, Donna who's got a child and a b.f. in jail and casually decides to have sex with Adam in lieu of a birthday present, an aggressive local artist, and his pregnant high school teacher,Miss Jones while an unhinged, misogynistic border patrol agent, Tomek watches over the neighborhood. Though apparently a bright kid, he's not really into school, and when he falls asleep during a rather approximate account of the French Revolution, his pregnant teacher, with a circa-1984 Madonna crucifix earring, feels the need to give the boy a "birthday spanking." What ensues is a web of sex, drugs, and violence as the Latino skater punks adjust to their gritty, aimless life in the dead end town.
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| Entertainment WeeklyJoe McGovernFor all his ogling, Clark's naturalistic dialogue is graced with moments of everyday poignancy, and his blue sense of humor, as ever, pokes out ... |
| Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinFor all its meanderings and indulgences — verbal and visual — this free-form snapshot of a circle of townsfolk in tiny Marfa, Texas, proves a sneakily immersive, weirdly memorable affair. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperThe numerous sex scenes are so uninteresting and devoid of creativity or plot advancement, even the actors participating in said encounters seem bored. |
| Village VoiceAaron HillisThe film is as shallow as its characters' oversexed conversations. |
| The DissolveNathan RabinClark is either doing way too little or way too much here; he rarely hits the right tone. |
| CinemaDopeGlenn LovellWhen not taking timeouts for gratuitous sex, Clark's characters drone on about sex. This being the case, whatever he has to say about life on the Texas border or about the treatment of undocumented immigrants feels both inconsequential and insincere. |
| RogerEbert.comOdie HendersonIt’s tedious at best, almost unwatchable at worst. |
| User ReviewLaurent PThis is a wonderful movie, deeply heartfelt, that manages to be completely unassuming and yet vividly profound. The movie's sexuality comes across as sheer art -- visually interesting and perfectly photographed just like every single frame in the movie, but deeply thought provoking and emotionally raw. There are only a handful of movies in the past two years that I can even mention this movie in the same breath with: Francis Ha, Grand Budapest Hotel, Blue Jasmine. There's not many movies on that list. If you ask me, this movie absolutely pisses all over movies like Place Beyond the Pines or even Dallas Buyer's Club, which come across as clunky, ham-handed and amateurish by comparison. For the record I did like both of those movies, particularly Dallas Buyer's Club, but Marfa Girl is on another level entirely and is something that will leave you with an open emotional wound and will open up your eyes in a very special way. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. |
| User ReviewAnton DThis is a wonderful movie, deeply heartfelt, that manages to be completely unassuming and yet vividly profound. The movie's sexuality comes across as sheer art -- visually interesting and perfectly photographed just like every single frame in the movie, but deeply thought provoking and emotionally raw. There are only a handful of movies in the past two years that I can even mention this movie in the same breath with: Francis Ha, Grand Budapest Hotel, Blue Jasmine. There's not many movies on that list. If you ask me, this movie absolutely pisses all over movies like Place Beyond the Pines or even Dallas Buyer's Club, which come across as clunky, ham-handed and amateurish by comparison. For the record I did like both of those movies, particularly Dallas Buyer's Club, but Marfa Girl is on another level entirely and is something that will leave you with an open emotional wound and will open up your eyes in a very special way. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. |
| User ReviewOla GAdam (Adam Mediano), a directionless 16-year-old living in the working class US/Mexico border town of Marfa, Texas, who is approaching his seventeenth birthday in a matter of days. He is beginning to become sexually curious, hoping to get lucky with his sixteen-year-old girlfriend Inez (Mercedes Maxwell), who he trusts completely, but also being tempted with sex from numerous other people, including his twentysomething neighbor, an aggressive local artist and his high school teacher. While an unhinged, misogynistic border patrol agent watches over the neighbourhood. What ensues is a web of sex, drugs, and violence as the Latino skater punks adjust to their gritty, aimless life in the dead end town... Despite winning the award for best film at the Rome Film Festival, the major critical attention directed at "Marfa Girl" has generally been more lukewarm in its enthusiasm. Boyd van Hoeij of Variety praised the cinematography while directing criticism at the acting of some cast members and the generally shallow plot, mentioning that "the sex and nudity are as plentiful as the plot and teen characters are thin." Jordan Mintzer of The Hollywood Reporter praised some aspects of the dialogue and cinematography, but said that the cinematography was "nothing new" and looked at times as if "it was ripped out of a Levi's ad." "Marfa Girl" is classic Larry Clark turf with themes of destructive adolescent behaviour, broken families, teenage angst and sex. Meaning we have seen it before and there´s nothing new under the sun. Frankly it´s quite interesting how Clark manages to be so static in his development as a director even if movies like "Kids", "Bully" and "Ken Park" were great films and has its place in the genre itself. But, how many times can we see the same topics being dragged out and dissected over and over by the same director? And in "Marfa Girl" Clark throws in a subplot concerning a misogynistic border patrol agent (a strong performance by Jeremy St. James) that sort of diverts the focus in a strange way. There´s strong topics and Clark manages to keep everything in a documentary style that works in certain scenes and in other it just becomes static, slow paced, bad and all the long pointless monologues are hardly that intriguing. And the acting is of course not spot on all the time, which I assume is what Clark wants. There´s impact, but less context. The person that stands out for me in "Marfa Girl" is the gorgeous and intriguing Drake Burnette who plays Marfa Girl. Her strong opinions, her will to explore her sexuality, her intellect, her beauty and her sexual glow. |