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Beyond a doubt, the best movie ever made. It is possibly better than any film that will be made in the future. John Waters.
SAT19 10.30pm Cinema 1
Director Russ Meyer Year 1965 Country USA Time 83 mins
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! Russ Meyer’s seminal, proto-feminist, sexploitation classic turns 50, and it sure looks great for its age. Three go-go dancers – Varla, her lover, Rosie and young wild girl Billie – dance by night and revel in crime by day. The trio terrorizes the Nevada desert in their supercharged sports car, wreaking havoc on the unsuspecting but deserving men who have the misfortune of crossing their path. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! is a gleefully sordid, violent and hilarious exploitation masterpiece from Russ Meyer, the thinking person’s skin-flick director. With sumptuous black and white cinematography, a furious jazz score, biting dialogue and over-thetop melodramatics, this is the ultimate expression of the American cinema’s greatest fetishes – aka kick-ass heroines, fast cars and sudden death – confirming it as of the great pieces of cinema to come out of the 1960s.
Russ Meyer’s fetishistic vision of powerful bisexual amazons of mixed nationalities engaged in criminal super action exists in a cartoonish world of black and white humor where anything is possible.
The sex is intended to arouse, the violence to excite, and the combination enables Faster Pussycat’s status as an absolute masterpiece of subversion.
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