film in the official section that does not yet have distribution within the Netherlands," and Venice Film Festival where it received a special mention from the FIPRESCI jury. It was picked up for distribution by Fine Line Features, and saw a limited release with an R rating (edited from the original NC-17 version) in the United States on October 17, 1997 for pervasive depiction of anti-social behavior of juveniles, including violence, substance abuse, sexuality and language. Critical reception Werner Herzog praised the film and talked about being impressed by the bacon taped to the wall during the bathtub scene. Director Lukas Moodysson listed it as one of his top ten films for the 2002 Sight and Sound Poll and Australian director Megan Spencer also praised the film. David Stratton of SBS's The Movie Show stated in his review that "cat lovers should be warned", but ultimately praised the film, calling it "original". Filmmaker Gus Van Sant on Gummo writes, "Venomous in story; genius in character; victorious in structure; teasingly gentle in epilogue; slapstick in theme; rebellious in nature; honest at heart; inspirational in its creation and with contempt at the tip of its tongue, [Gummo] is a portrait of small-town Middle American life that is both bracingly realistic and hauntingly dreamlike." As of 2022, Gummo holds a 38% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 58 reviews, with an average rating of 5.9/10. The site's critical consensus states "Gummo'''s bold provocations may impress more iconoclastically inclined viewers, but others will find it hard to see past writer-director Harmony Korine's overwhelmingly sour storytelling perspective." On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized score, the movie holds a 19/100 rating based on 15 reviews, which indicates "overwhelming dislike." A short excerpt from Gummo was shown after the opening sequence in the 1998 Hype Williams film Belly. Film websites Mubi and They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? have listed Gummo among their 1000 greatest films of all time. The Diary of Anne Frank Pt. IIThe Diary of Anne Frank Pt. II is a 40-minute three-screen collage featuring the same actors and themes as Gummo, and can be considered a companion piece. Korine comments, "I could probably make another two movies with the excess footage [from Gummo'']. Some of this material I'm going to use in this art work... the problem you run into doing multimedia projection is that a lot of the time, the style takes