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Kaboom (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Boom
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Dolby DTS 5.1 )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
83 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Commentary
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Teaser(s)
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2010 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Gregg Araki

Written By:
Gregg Araki

Actors:
Haley Bennett ..... Stella
Thomas Dekker ..... Smith
James Duval ..... The Messiah
Andy Fischer-Price ..... Rex
Brandy Futch ..... Drug Fairy Nymph
Nicole LaLiberte ..... Red-Haired Girl
Natalie Alyn Lind ..... Cult Victim
Kelly Lynch ..... Oliver
Brennan Mejia ..... Milo
Carlo Mendez ..... Lorelei
Roxane Mesquida ..... Girl
Christine Nguyen ..... Hunter
Jason Olive ..... London
Juno Temple ..... Thor
Chris Zylka

Synopsis:

Smith, the bisexual Southern California college student whose misadventures - some possibly in his own head, many in other people's beds - are at the center of 'Kaboom,' is a cinema studies major. This fact in itself may not be enough to establish him as an alter ego for the director, Gregg Araki, but it does allow Mr. Araki to offer some hints about what he is up to in this chaotic, trifling, oddly likable film. At one point Mr. Araki's super-bright color scheme gives way to flickering black-and-white images culled from the early, silent, aggressively Surrealist work of Luis Buñuel. Buñuel's insight in 'L'Age d'Or' and 'Un Chien Andalou' - independently repeated a few years later by Leo McCarey in the Marx Brothers vehicle 'Duck Soup' - was that the syntax of film could make the incongruous appear coherent. An illusion of continuity is produced that can turn nonsense into sense, even as the medium's compression and fracturing of time can have the opposite effect. And Mr. Araki works the logic both ways. 'Kaboom' is both crazily disjunctive and smooth, jumping from polymorphous sex comedy to murder mystery to paranoid apocalyptic science-fiction freakout, with nimble nonchalance and up-to-the-minute pop music cues.

Smith's everyday life in the dorms - hanging out with his arty, sarcastic best friend Stella, hooking up with a beautiful free spirit named London, lusting for his gorgeous but dim surfer roommate Thor - all gets turned upside-down after one fateful, terrifying night. Tripping on some hallucinogenic cookies he ate at a party, Smith is convinced he's witnessed the gruesome murder of an enigmatic Red Haired Girl who has been haunting his dreams. What he discovers as he tries to find out the truth leads him deeper and deeper into a mystery that will forever change not only the course of his young life but the destiny of the entire world.

Smith's everyday life in the dorm - hanging out with his arty, sarcastic best friend Stella, hooking up with a beautiful free spirit named London, lusting for his gorgeous but dim surfer roommate Thor - all gets turned upside-down after one fateful, terrifying night.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 11 April, 2011.