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From: tas@ariel.UUCP (T.SKROBALA)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Liquid Sky
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Date: Sun, 14-Aug-83 17:00:28 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 14 17:00:28 1983
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Liquid Sky is a rather enjoyable film of the "strange" genre.  It concerns
a number of new wavish people living in lower Manhattan and their various
needs, eccentricities, and jealousies.  Major subjects are sex, heroin,
and vanity.  All is under the watchful eyes of aliens (including one German
with a telescope) and the Empire State Buliding.  The main character is a
typical suburban Connecticut girl who has become a punked-out model living
with a lesbian heroin dealer and competing with a boy model who looks just
like her and despises her.  She develops the power to kill people by having
intercourse with them and uses this power to dispose of some rather
obnoxious acquaintances.

The film is most striking in its use of color.  I don't think I've ever
seen a more intense combination of flashes, streaks, and splashes on
the screen (It's sometimes enough to make you think you're on drugs when
you're not).  The characters are rather Warholian.  That is, they tend to
dress and act ostentatiously while speaking in monotones.  Smatterafact,
the whole thing is rather like a Warhol film as directed by Ken Russell.
The movie is funny and fun, not particularly touching or moralistic.
Probably not a family film, but that depends on your family.  Produced,
oddly enough, by a bunch of recent Soviet emigres.  Playing at The Waverly
in Greenwich Village.

Tom Skrobala ariel!tas 201-834-3558