A Portrait of the Artist as a Perpetually Stoned Beach Bum
Harmony Korine’s new film is an upbeat kind of Homeric journey starring a blissed-out, romper-wearing Matthew McConaughey.
by David Sims
Mar 28, 2019
3 minutes
Harmony Korine is a filmmaker who often traffics in shock value. His career is a laundry list of inflammatory works—from his searing screenwriting debut, , to his fragmented, sometimes frightening directorial efforts, such as ,,and the crime thriller . His newest work, , shares a gauzy neon aesthetic and Florida setting with , and it’s marked by the usual plethora of drug use, free love, and pirate’s-life-for-me lawlessness that suffuses every Korine movie. But somehow manages to be an upbeat, triumphant tale of creativity and free-spiritedness.
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