This is a movie about stripping with three vignettes of stripping that make the whole thing seem very unappealing. Maybe that was on purpose; the movie is obviously ANTI-stripping in every other regard.
Much has been said about Rue's performance, and from what I could see, she was misdirected in virtually everything she was supposed to do, as was the male lead. Both were obviously capable of better performances, and it is a shame in particular that the male lead never made it to better films. Rue's make-up is flat and chalky; I kept expecting this to become a vampire film at any time. But her performance is far better than the director evidently wanted.
The director; ah, the director. Possibly the stodgiest, most agoraphobic person ever to lens a film. I still have no idea how he made the beach and the OCEAN look confining and bleak; he makes the boating scenes in "The Skydivers" look like a ad of an amusement park. The director and writer put together a depressing, impotent world in which no one is really worth redemption or really even wants it.
This film is recommended as a textbook for what NOT to when making a movie.
Much has been said about Rue's performance, and from what I could see, she was misdirected in virtually everything she was supposed to do, as was the male lead. Both were obviously capable of better performances, and it is a shame in particular that the male lead never made it to better films. Rue's make-up is flat and chalky; I kept expecting this to become a vampire film at any time. But her performance is far better than the director evidently wanted.
The director; ah, the director. Possibly the stodgiest, most agoraphobic person ever to lens a film. I still have no idea how he made the beach and the OCEAN look confining and bleak; he makes the boating scenes in "The Skydivers" look like a ad of an amusement park. The director and writer put together a depressing, impotent world in which no one is really worth redemption or really even wants it.
This film is recommended as a textbook for what NOT to when making a movie.