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Kids: revisiting the the most controversial film of the nineties

21 mins | May 28, 2017
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What can we learn from it? Moira Weigel revisits 'Kids', the 1995 New York teen drama set in the context of the AIDS epidemic and reveals how became one of the most controversial films of its time. Here, she reflects on how it accurately anticipated the rise of a youth culture based on provocative self-documentation.

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