@ Miss Queencake has an artificial style while dream and reality seem to mingle in the film. Holiday herself calls her film a tragi-comic ‘boat movie’. For her, film is a space in which fantasy and reality meet. In this film the ‘space’ is filled with certain memories of youth.
One of the most extreme and successful examples of the ‘new directors’ film. A surrealistic burlesque which in its exuberant insanity seems like a radical…
The film comprises a stream of symbolic, experimental images. On the soundtrack, Sylvia Plath is reading her Lady Lazarus. This makes the film more literary…
