Gregg Araki Reviews and Articles | Little White Lies

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A woman wearing a green halter-neck swimsuit and sunglasses, sitting on a lounger by a pool with a drink on a table beside her.
Review

White Bird in a Blizzard

by Cormac O'Brien

Mad­ness, ado­les­cence and nos­tal­gia colour Gregg Arak­i’s poet­ic mys­tery star­ring Shai­lene Woodley.

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A young man with dark hair speaks on a mobile phone, flanked by two young women, one blonde and one brunette, all appearing to be outdoors.
Review

Kaboom

by Adam Woodward

A high­ly-fetishised, hyper-sur­re­al teenage Twin Peaks that’s undone by its own excess­es and a lack of nar­ra­tive clarity.

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Two people, a man and a woman, sitting close together and looking intently at each other.
Review

Mysterious Skin

by David Jenkins

Gregg Ara­ki has aban­doned his rough-around-the-edges exploita­tion style in favour of the dream-like tex­tures of David Lynch.

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