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With ‘The Smell of Us’ out this week, we take a look back at our feature with Larry Clark\u2019s screenwriting prodigy Mathieu Landais in Wonderland Winter 13\/14.<\/p>\n

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Luca wears plaid shirt and denim jeans both by Denim & Supply Ralph Lauren, t-shirt by Dolce & Gabbana and shoes Lucas’ own. Theo wears wool jumper by Gucci, trousers by Balmain and boots by Saint Laurent by Hedi Slimane.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Lucas wears coat and trousers by Margaret Howell.<\/em><\/p>\n

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When searching for new talent, Larry Clark has always trusted his intuition – and street cred – over a solid resume. After meeting Harmony Korine, then aged 21 and skating his day away in New York\u2019s Washington Square, he asked him to write the screenplay for his debut feature length, Kids.<\/p>\n

It is probably the same dose of attitude – paired with hushed sensitivity – that he perceived in young writer Mathieu Landais, aka \u201cScribe\u201d. The 25-year-old poet from Nantes, France, was swiftly put\u2028in charge of the\u2028 filmmaker\u2019s upcoming French feature The Smell of Us (his first foreign language picture, due to be released in early 2014), after a chance meeting. Whilst Clark was looking to explore familiar subject matters – youth, drugs and much debauchery – under a Gallic light, he sensed he needed an expert guide to youthful Parisian specificities, tastes and problematics.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis isn\u2019t about doing a French version of Kids,\u201d says Landais about the film, which follows the life of a group of four young skaters (Diane Rouxel, Lukas Ionesco, Hugo Behar and Theo Cholbi) struggling to find meaning\u2028in the urban fauna, played\u2028by local novice actors at the exception of Michael Pitt. \u201cThe film is very much about Paris and about now,\u201d he\u2028ads, sipping on a glass of\u2028red wine. Dressed in tight- fitting dark clothes, midway between goth and a dandy, the delicate young man possesses a certain sense of sophistication and style, typical of European boyhood but miles away from the director\u2019s rugged muses. The two men met (almost) by accident in 2009, as Larry Clark was preparing a retrospective exhibition at the city\u2019s Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Art Moderne.<\/p>\n

A mutual friend had secretly\u2028introduced the director to Scribe\u2019s\u2028work \u2013 and insisted the latter\u2028came to pick up his notebooks\u2028filled with poems at Clark\u2019s hotel.\u2028The filmmaker liked Scribe\u2019s\u2028style – highly sophisticated but\u2028raw in content. It introduced him\u2028to a depiction of France he was\u2028unaware off. The two developed a\u2028friendship, painted the town red,\u2028hung out in dive bars, watched\u2028skaters at the famous hang-out of\u2028Alma Marceau on the capital\u2019s\u2028Right Bank. Clark asked Scribe\u2028to try and write a few scenes for a\u2028new project he was working on, and eventually took him\u2028on board full-time. \u201cIt was slightly surreal. There I was, a little writer from the provinces, and Larry Clark suddenly introduces me as his screenwriter,\u201d he reminisces. \u201cRapidly, we both discovered an old man and lost teenager within ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the film, skateboarding becomes the backdrop to an exploration of love, money, communication (or lack off) in the age of New Media and recession. \u201cThe theme\u2028of skating \u2013 one dear to Larry and somewhat present in France too\u2014, but layered with local considerations, cultural references and contemporary maladies.\u201d<\/p>\n

The impact of technology on everyday life has been a long-standing preoccupation Clark\u2019s, Landais adds, and he found the time was ripe. The film scrutinises the paradoxical role of the Internet \u2013 replaying and replacing basic human encounters, while facilitating other improbable aspects: on one hand, it portrays its actors buying drugs online and on the other, making it impossible to have a real-life discussion.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou see the kids spending their day doing absolutely everything on the Internet, but unable to make a phone call because it\u2019s almost too intimate.\u201d The notion reaches a peak when two of them sign up to an escort agency – only to shy away from seeing their girlfriends. \u201cIt\u2019s the irony of New Media: it facilitates the worst in us, and creates a distance from what\u2019s essential. It defines your role and relationship to others, yet ostracises you.\u201d<\/p>\n

The film also explores the state of desire and consumption of young adults having grown up in a recession, with little prospect of a career and easy money. Although the group are seen buying things frenetically, they seem to have lost their enthusiasm that should have gone with it. \u201cWe are almost post-consumerist, a youth that buys stuff online because it\u2028is bored but no longer believes in the myth and narrative behind the goods, because it has lost faith in ad-men.\u201d<\/p>\n

This hyper-connectivity goes hand in hand with a sense of hyper-awareness: they all show a certain lack of idealism, yet\u2028a knowledge that the problems they read about don\u2019t affect them directly. \u201c9-11, the war in Iraq – these are all things they found out about in the media, but that don\u2019t affect them directly, tucked away in socialist Paris.\u201d<\/p>\n

Instead, the actors amble around town, bored, in a town that is neither Compton, nor Am\u00e9lie, nor Woody Allen\u2019s Midnight in Paris. Drugs are at hand\u2019s reach and recreational, and as for skating, it becomes a metaphor\u2028for empty journeys. \u201cParis is\u2028more about avoiding questions of money…\u201d Landais continues, \u201c…faking that you\u2019ve got more than you do, replaying a sophistication that is expected from you.\u201d<\/p>\n

The film proved to be a personal journey too, as did his relationship with Clark. The pair became the \u201cBest of friends and the best of enemies, forcing each other to speak, to come out of our shell. It is always about working out your place in life – figuring out what to leave behind and, more importantly, what to take with you.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Lucas wears jumper by Sisley, denim waistcoat by G-Star RAW, trousers by 3.1 Phillip Lim and shoes Lucas’ own. Diane wears leather jacket by Yang Li, jumper by adidas SLVR, jeans by Levi’s and shoes Diane’s own.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Hugo wears leather jacket by Lanvin, jumper by Kolor and trousers by Alexander Wang.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"DSC_7077\"<\/a>Hugo wears coat by Burberry Prorsum, jumper by Trussardi, trousers by Kris Van Assche.<\/em><\/p>\n

Words:\u00a0 <\/strong>Alice Pfeiffer<\/p>\n

Fashion Editor:<\/strong> Nicholas Galletti<\/p>\n

Photographer:<\/strong> Joe Lai<\/p>\n

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