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Poison
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3
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| Starring |
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Larry Maxwell, Susan Norman, Scott Tenderer
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Directed by:
Todd Haynes
Written by:
Todd Haynes, based on the novels of Jean Genet
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1991 |
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DRAMA
PORTMANTEAU
CONTROVERSIAL
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US |
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C |
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85 |
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Todd Haynes's incoherent tribute to the ideas, such as they were, of Jean Genet. |
Reviewed by Chris Tookey
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| It takes the form of three stories, separate though intercut, about three "monsters": a homosexual prisoner (in a story shot as prison melodrama), a child who murders his father (shot as TV documentary), and a scientist who accidentally turns himself into a contagious killer (a laboured metaphor for Aids, shot as a 50s B-movie). Poison aroused an outcry in the States, partly because of homosexual scenes, but mainly because it received a grant from America's National Endowment for the Arts. | |
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