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Liquid Sky

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Liquid Sky  (1982)

The title claims to be local slang for heroine in early 80s Manhattan. I class this film (with "Donnie Darko") as a noble but failed experiment.

Ostensibly about the club scene in Manhattan, the plot thickens when aliens land on the apartment roof of a lesbian night clubber and somehow steal the endorphins of her partners when they have a climax. Unfortunately, this theft is fatal for her partners. C'est la vie.

The film is a great documentary of its time, and it explored gender issues,  homosexuality, and the self-closeting of gays and lesbians in the 70s as they sought to fit in in high school among the straight crowd. The director, Slava Tsukerman, and his co-screenwriter (and star of the film) Anne Carlisle manage to take the themes beyond that, however, and they've made a film that resonates in a weird, narcissistic way. It teeters on the edge of being a great movie, but it falls the wrong way. Well worth seeing, though.

posted on Thursday, October 16, 2008 12:35 AM by civex


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