A event held at The Ill Repute on Wednesday 6th December. The event starts at 20:00.
"I'm so f****** beautiful I can't stand it myself! Now, everybody freeze! Who wants to be famous? Who wants to DIE for art?!"
To mark Be Kind Rewind Bristol's 15th screening, we're taking you back where it all began with another cult classic from the Pope of Trash. In one of the most iconic collaborations between John Waters and Divine, a schoolgirl becomes an avant-garde criminal, all in the name of beauty.
Glamour has never been more grotesque than in Female Trouble, which injects the Hollywood melodrama with anarchic decadence. Divine, director John Waters’ larger-than-life muse, engulfs the screen with charisma as Dawn Davenport, the living embodiment of the film’s lurid mantra, “Crime is beauty,” who progresses from a teenage nightmare hell-bent on getting cha-cha heels for Christmas to a fame monster whose egomaniacal impulses land her in the electric chair. Shot in Waters’ native Baltimore on 16 mm, with a cast drawn from his beloved troupe of regulars, the Dreamlanders (including Mink Stole, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Edith Massey, and Cookie Mueller), this film—the director’s favorite of his work with Divine—comes to life through the tinsel-toned vision of production designer Vincent Peranio and costume designer/makeup artist Van Smith. An endlessly quotable fan favorite, Female Trouble offers up perverse pleasures that never fail to satisfy.
Free Entry!
Film starts at 8pm but make sure to arrive early to guarantee a seat!
More info: https://linktr.ee/bekindrewindbristol
Entry requirements:
To mark Be Kind Rewind Bristol's 15th screening, we're taking you back where it all began with another cult classic from the Pope of Trash. In one of the most iconic collaborations between John Waters and Divine, a schoolgirl becomes an avant-garde criminal, all in the name of beauty.
Glamour has never been more grotesque than in Female Trouble, which injects the Hollywood melodrama with anarchic decadence. Divine, director John Waters’ larger-than-life muse, engulfs the screen with charisma as Dawn Davenport, the living embodiment of the film’s lurid mantra, “Crime is beauty,” who progresses from a teenage nightmare hell-bent on getting cha-cha heels for Christmas to a fame monster whose egomaniacal impulses land her in the electric chair. Shot in Waters’ native Baltimore on 16 mm, with a cast drawn from his beloved troupe of regulars, the Dreamlanders (including Mink Stole, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Edith Massey, and Cookie Mueller), this film—the director’s favorite of his work with Divine—comes to life through the tinsel-toned vision of production designer Vincent Peranio and costume designer/makeup artist Van Smith. An endlessly quotable fan favorite, Female Trouble offers up perverse pleasures that never fail to satisfy.
Free Entry!
Film starts at 8pm but make sure to arrive early to guarantee a seat!
More info: https://linktr.ee/bekindrewindbristol
Entry requirements:
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