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The Devil's Cleavage es una película dirigida por George Kuchar con Ainslie Pryor, Curt McDowell, Virginia Giritlian, Kathleen Hohalek .... Año: 1975. Título original: The Devil's Cleavage. Sinopsis: Una enfermera atrapada en un matrimonio infeliz escapa de la gran ciudad en busca de las verdes praderas de Beato Prairie, Oklahoma.
George Kuchar. A shady motel manager becomes obsessed with a neglected wife.
24 de dic. de 2018 · Swerving from earnest homage to dark satire, Kuchar simultaneously imitates and savages the legacy of Sirk, Preminger and Minnelli that inspired him, gleefully intertwining the suggestive and the scatological, while also pointing towards the later postmodern parodies of Cindy Sherman.
With its barrage of deliciously overripe dialogue (“At least stalks of corn have ears and aren’t deaf to the desperations of the damned!”), The Devil’s Cleavage plays like a 1940s Otto Preminger film writ in filth and sleaze. Playing on January 4 in 16mm.
George Kuchar's lovingly farcical re-creation of those (Forties and Fifties) melodramas, THE DEVIL'S CLEAVAGE, is a camp parody that sometimes directly steals from the genre, sometimes burlesques it, and often travesties it. As you might expect, it soon begins to mock all kinds of cinematic references, from Hitchcock to Preminger.
Original title: The Devil's Cleavage. Synopsis: One of Kuchar's few feature-length works is this ribald pastiche to postwar Hollywood melodrama, that period when the studios were trying very hard to be adult.
The Devil’s Cleavage is also a rich time capsule of 1970s San Francisco, replete with cameos from Curt McDowell and Art Spiegelman." —hcl.harvard.edu The intricate, overheated plot…
