Gregg Araki – Smiley Face (2007)

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This is a BR rip of Gregg Araki’s latest film, his follow up to the great Mysterious Skin (2004), which was probably the best (and best reviewed) film of Araki’s career, after an uneven run of making strange, campy, low-budget films such as The Doom Generation (1995) and Nowhere (1997). Now Araki does something completely different, creating the indie answer to mainstream “pot comedies” such as Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle and the Cheech and Chong films. As such, Smiley Face is something of an oddity: it is at once a pot comedy, a subversive postmodern satire of pot comedies (the film explicitly references Harold and Kumar), an exercise in cinematic minimalism and absurdism, and also (maybe) a failed bid for mainstream success. There are some truly odd and transcendent moments in this film, but there are an equal number of scenes that just stagnate and don’t seem to work at all. All things considered, this was a strange choice of film for Araki to make, but it is interesting and sometimes funny even amidst all of its flaws.

Smiley.Face.2007.576p.BluRay.H264-KG.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 24 min
Size: 	1.99 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1024x576 
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	3 000 kb/s
BPP: 	0.212
Audio
#1:  	English 5.1ch E-AC-3 @ 384 kb/s (DTS-HD Master Audio Surround 5.1)

https://nitro.download/view/4C8E90394935423/Smiley.Face.2007.576p.BluRay.H264-KG.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

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