Anne Giotta,
Buck Smith,
Edith Meeks,
James Lyons,
Larry Maxwell
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DVD Release Date: February 15, 2000
Stats: 89 reviews
A beautiful, deeply eerie, and disgusting film. This controversial NC-17 movie is a small masterpiece.
Story 1:
"Hero"
Tells the story of seven-year old Richie Beacon, who kills his brutally abusive fa...( read more)
LOVE this film and is responsible for my deeper appreciation of independent films. Three stories shot in various styles with a single, common thread. If you haven't seen this film, you must.
Much of this is difficult to watch, and it's hard to fall into a rhythm, but the climax is worth I think.
Three stories each in different genre's connected by the writings of Jean Genet, which abstractly connect in theme are weaved together, one is mockumentary about a boy who shot his father and then flew out of the window, the other is a black and whit...(read more)e Roger Cormanes...( read more)
Interesting first effort for Haynes. You can see the roots of disjointed chronology with poetic narrative that flourishes his later work.
It has been made perfectly clear that Todd Haynes will never disappoint me and this film is the proof of that. His fascinating storytelling creativity flows beautifully in these tales of haunted and human characters.
The film is constructed of 3 stories: "Homo","Horror" and "Hero".In Homo the
thing that impressed me was that the events in present sequence are not so
shocking (though are shot in dark light) in comparison with the events in the past
sequence(shot in a bright and romantic...( read more)
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