The French director and artist Jean Vigo was at a low point in his career when a rich businessman agreed to finance his semiautobiographical tale of four rebellious boys at boarding school. But the commitment of all involved (especially debuting actors Chloë Sevigny and Rosario Dawson) was undeniable. A normal day in the life? Audiences cringed. With AIDS tearing apart the fabric of the city, these high-schoolers splash blithely in the pool of shared fluids-that is, when they’re not partaking in copious drug use, random acts of violence, homophobic slurs and rape. No one partied as hard as these untended NYC teens, and, it was implied, no one would suffer as much. But unlike many of the films on this list, Kids leaves an especially bitter aftertaste: Its rebellion is self-destructive. The behind-the-scenes story is legend: Scripted by a then-18-year-old Harmony Korine, a Washington Square skate rat directed by observant photographer Larry Clark, keen to make the ultimate teen movie and sold by distributor Harvey Weinstein, who consciously courted outrage-the movie is an emblem of indie provocation.
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