Maeve Quinlan in Ken Park (2002)

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As a film director, acclaimed photographer Larry Clark likes to brighten the silver screen with the same explicit views of taboo sex, violence, and negative diversions among disaffected youth that motivated and beguiled the screwy doper kids of his most famous still pictures. Clark's earlier cinematic travelogues into teenage angst and carnal excesses, Kids (1995) and Bully (2001), exhibited a naturalistic style of filming and acting that lent them a documentary feel, a real-life edge that his exploration of Southern California suburban screw-ups, Ken Park (2002), shares with its predecessors. What distinguishes Ken Park from the rest of Clark's oeuvre is that the sex scenes are far and away the most erotic he has ever put to film. And that is saying a mouthful.