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Liquid Sky ***
by Ed Gonzalez on October 13, 2002 Jump to Comments (0) or Add Your Own
Since its unmemorable release in 1982, the Warhol-esque Liquid Sky has developed a rather significant cult following. Anne Carlisle (Desperately Seeking Susan) plays dual roles in the film: Jimmy, a male model with a raging drugging addiction and Margaret, a bisexual girl who could easily pass for Aimee Mann during her 'Til Tuesday days. Otto von Wernherr (Madonna enemy and early collaborator) plays a German scientist chasing after an alien spacecraft that visits the Earth in order to feed off the opium-producing receptors inside the brains of heroin users. During sexual orgasm, these receptors produce a sensation similar to the feeling produced by the brain during the absorption of heroin. The film's aliens (visually represented using negative film stock of a blood-shot eye) feed off of this pleasure principle, spontaneously combusting humans as they engage in sexual intercourse. Aliens, drugs, clubs, orgasms and big hair! The film and its synth-laden soundtrack are celebrations of '80s counter-culture. Some 20 years after its release, the bad behavior and paranoia depicted here seemingly foreshadows the ramifications of said culture's sexual indiscretions and the country's own political naivete.
- Director(s): Slava Tsukerman
- Screenplay: Anne Carlisle, Nina V. Kerova, Slava Tsukerman
- Cast: Anne Carlisle, Paula Sheppard, Susan Doukas, Otto von Wernherr, Bob Brady, Elaine C. Grove, Stanley Knapp, Jack Adalist
- Distributor: Cinevista
- Runtime: 118 min.
- Rating: R
- Year: 1982
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