Wassup Rockers

Lately I've been into this fashion editorial, shot by seminal photographer Larry Clark, of the kids who star in his latest film, Wassup Rockers, which is coming out later this month. (But don't quote me on that: movie release dates are notoriously mutable sometimes.) Hailed as a return to form at the Toronto International Film Festival and the best film he's done since Kids, Clark's movie follows the hijinks and travails of a group of South Central Los Angeles Latino kids who rebel against the surrounding hiphop culture by skateboarding and adopting a more rock-influenced style, complete with black jeans and punk t-shirts. Eventually they make a pilgrimage to a skate spot in ritzy Beverly Hills and realize just how out of place they are in the world. Promising near-verite performances, a loose, almost documentary-style narrative and a punk rock soundtrack, Wassup Rockers should prove an edgy antidote to inane middle-class teen comedies, not to mention aesthetics centering on skinny pasty dudes who can barely run down the street in their tight designer jeans, much less ollie off rails.

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