Totally F***ed Up

Gregg Araki / USA / 1993 / 85 min / English
Thursday Oct 1 at 20.00, Momangen

The first film in Gregg Araki’s ”Teen Apocalypse” trilogy is a feverish mix of punk nihilism and stoic irony that gives Jean-Luc Godard’s classic Masculine Feminine a bold, queer twist. Through fifteen fragmentary episodes, Totally F***ed Up throws itself headfirst into the lives of a group of disillusioned queer teenagers in Los Angeles, who form a kind of improvised family as they navigate desire and heartbreak, rejection from society and family, and the alienation that comes with growing up gay in an era marked by unforgiving moralism. The film is at once a defiant, raw manifesto for outsiderhood and a furious reckoning with typically American homophobia — Araki’s answer to the teen comedies of the ’80s captures youthful anguish with an immediacy that still stings.