VARIETY

USA | 1983 | COLOR | DCP | 101’ | ENGLISH

It’s not only that it moves through a bizarre no (wo) man’s land between ‘Taxi Driver’ and ‘The Passenger’’, nor that some of the most well-known figures of New York’s independent art are involved Kathy Acker screenplay, Betty Gordon direction, Sally MacLeod leading role, John Lurie music, Tom DiCillo cinematography. It is that through the story of a young woman working as a cashier at a porn cinema, becoming obsessed with a rich client, we see the sophisticated yet direct development of a feminist hypothesis on the effects of male narratives, on the scattered identity being destroyed and reconstructed again in uncertainty, on the fantasy that at some point stops being stimulating. And what an exquisite final shot, indeed. I.D.

DIRECTOR: Bette Gordon
SCREENWRITER: Kathy Acker
DoP: Tom DiCillo, John Foster
MUSIC: John Lurie
EDITOR: Ila von Hasperg
PRINCIPAL CAST: Sandy McLeod, Will Patton, Richard M. Davidson, Luis Guzmán, Nan Goldin

BETTE GORDON
American director born in 1950. She studied at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and began making films in the mid ‘70s. She found herself in the heart of an important New York artistic group in the early ‘80s, which informed the experimental nature of her work. She is a professor at Columbia University

FILMOGRAPHY
2016 The Drowning
2009 Handsome Harry
1998 Luminous Motion
1983 Variety
1981 Anybody’s Woman