Always hoped there would be a masterpiece in Blier's grab bag of bad taste, narrative reshufflings and absurdity that turns from comic to tragic (and vice versa), and it looks like this here big budget 90s arthouse/pop oddity may be it. This will be a hard one to write about without spoilers, though ittedly if you want to watch a film in which lots of unexpected and unpredictable things happen, this is for you. Starts with a battered bride in…

Been intending to check out more Jost for a while as I rather liked his autobiographical essay film "Speaking Directly". A highly regarded and very much self-styled/opinionated "fierce American Independent", this is Jost's first narrative fiction film and I would guess it is an attempt to merge the post-underground styles of its era (think early James Benning or Bruce Baillie on heavy downers) with the more mainstream early 70s "bummer, dude" narrative style (a la "Five Easy Pieces"), also a…

Weird weird back story behind this one. Directed by a very mysterious English feller who made his name in the 80s art and fashion worlds then proceeded to rip off just about everyone who he came into with. He managed to change his name and convinced someone to fund an avant-garde feature film starring Beatrice Dalle and the late Guillame Depardieu (who I think was a much more fiery actor than his famous papa), with a cameo appearance from…

French cinema needs more films about the joys of living with a permanently disturbed mind after secretly watching "forbidden films" on VHS on your 10th birthday. Or Jean Cocteau impersonating Stalin on the last night of his life, the same Jean Cocteau who made a necrophilic horror film called "Here Lies The Cock". Or being exiled to a martian landscape of huge penis-shaped stalagmites on your 23rd birthday because your parents want you to "mate with a man". Yes, its…