Country: Senegal
Year: 2010
Duration: 86'
Kaboom Smith lives on-campus. He spends his days with Stella, his best friend, is sexually fixated on London and dreams of going to bed with Thor, the blond surfer he rooms with. One night, under the effect of hallucinogenic cookies, Smith convinces himself that he was a witness to the murder of the beautiful red-haired girl he is always dreaming about. When he tries to reconstruct the facts, Smith and his friends end up getting involved in a mystery that is about to change their lives – and the destiny of humanity – forever. “I always wanted to make an enigmatic and mysterious film that is inspired by David Lynch’s Twin Peaks. I have always been deeply influenced by the post-punk scene and alternative music and there is something very punk in Twin Peaks, in the way it questions mainstream logic. It had a brave, intriguing and new kind of purity. Although I know that it’s impossible to create something that can even approach such an important work, Kaboom aspires for that crystalline freedom.”
Biography
film director
Gregg Araki
Gregg Araki (Los Angeles, CA, USA, 1959) graduated in film studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara and got his master’s degree at the University of Southern California. In 1987 he directed and produced his first film, which was presented and awarded at the Locarno Film Festival. He went on to gain international visibility with The Living End and next made his so-called “Teen Apocalypse” trilogy, composed of Totally F***ed Up, Doom Generation and Nowhere. Mysterious Skin, an adaptation of the novel by Scott Heim, was presented out of competition at the 2004 Venice Film Festival. In 2007, Smiley Face, participated at the Cannes Film Festival in the section Quinzaine des réalisateurs.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia/filmography
Three Bewildered People in the Night (1987), The Long Weekend (O’ Despair) (1989), The Living End (1992), Totally F***ed Up (1994), The Doom Generation (Doom Generation, 1995), Nowhere (Ecstasy Generation, 1997), Splendor (Splendidi amori, 1999), Mysterious Skin (2004), Smiley Face (2007), Kaboom (2010).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay
Gregg Araki
fotografia/cinematography
Sandra Valde-Hansen
scenografia/production design
Todd Fjelsted
costumi/costume design
Trayce Gigi Field
musica/music
Ulrich Schnauss, Mark Peters, Vivek Maddala, Robin Guthrie
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Thomas Dekker (Smith), Haley Bennett (Stella), Chris Zylka (Thor), Roxane Mesquida (Lorelei), Juno Temple (London), Andy Fischer-Price (Rex), Nicole LaLiberte (la ragazza con i capelli rossi/Red Haired Girl), Jason Olive (Hunter), Brennan Mejia (Oliver), Kelly Lynch (Nicole)
produttori/producers
Andrea Sperling, Gregg Araki
produzione/production
Why Not U.S. Productions, Desperate Pictures
coproduttore/coproducer
Pavlina Hatoupis
distribuzione/distribution
Bim
vendita all’estero/world sales
Wild Bunch
