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DVD Pick of the week: Kaboom (IFC Films/MPI Media Group)

Gregg Araki’s latest outing finds the filmmaker in a loose, lusty mood with a freewheeling portrait of reckless, restless youth. This is what Rules of Attraction should have been.

Thomas Dekker plays Smith, an 18-year-old college freshman wrestling with adolescent angst by way of sexual experimentation (with both sexes), substance abuse, self-analysis and other teenaged pursuits. Sometimes he even goes to class, but what he really learns happens outside the classroom.

What first seems a saucy satire of teen sex comedies is only a warm-up, as Araki revels in irreverence and, indeed, self-indulgence, with the film proceeding on a wacky, sometimes nightmarish course — throwing in a couple of murders, a dose of witchcraft, a cult conspiracy and, with a final detour into scifi, a denouement best described as a cosmic joke... and it’s on us, the audience.

Haley Bennett, Juno Temple, Chris Zylka, James Duval, Roxane Mesquida and Kelly Lynch (as Smith’s mom) round out the cast, and it’s interesting to note that each character has some semblance of an arc; they’ve all got something to do. Kaboom isn’t for everyone — to say the least! — but it’s a delirious head trip for those willing to take the ride. Just hang on tight.

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