Orgies Abound

Notorious Kids director, Larry Clark has done it again. The scandal magnet and master of shocking sex scenes on celluloid has rocked the Venice Film Festival with his new film, Ken Park. Portraying the lives of four dysfunctional families in California and managing to pack in incest, a couple of explicit erotic acts and more than a touch of graphic sex on screen, Clark has scandalized even the other directors at the festival with a number of scenes that might well prove impossible to release commercially. Tiffany Limos, who plays the sixteen-year-old Peaches in the movie, recently told the New York Observer: "It's beyond X-rated. Beyond anything you've ever seen." The local Venetian Il Gazzettino newspaper certainly agrees, as trumpeted by its headline, "Sex and orgies: the Ken Park scandal explodes." Clark is, as ever, completely unrepentant, claiming that his movie - co-directed with renowned cinematographer Ed Lachman - is not pornographic but 'honest'. To further underline his integrity, Clark insisted that at least the exposure is balanced, "I'm showing everything. For every vagina, there's a penis." Quite.