QFest St. Louis - Poison
Name:
QFest St. Louis - Poison
Date:
April 29, 2022
Time:
9:00 PM - 11:00 PM CDT
Website:
https://www.cinemastlouis.org/poison
Poison
Event Description:
This year’s Q Classic is the second feature directed by Todd Haynes, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker of “Far from Heaven” and “Carol.” A groundbreaking American indie — winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 1991 Sundance Film Festival — “Poison” was one of the most fervently debated films of the early 1990s and served as a landmark of the New Queer Cinema. A work of immense visual invention, Haynes’ spectacular follow-up to his legendary “Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story” is audacious, disturbing and thrillingly cinematic. Inspired by the writings of Jean Genet, “Poison” deftly interweaves a trio of transgressive tales: “Hero,” shot in mock TV-documentary style, tells a bizarre story of suburban patricide and a miraculous flight from justice; “Horror,” filmed like a delirious ’50s B-movie melodrama, is a gothic tale of a mad sex experiment that unleashes a disfiguring plague; and “Homo” explores the obsessive sexual relationship between two prison inmates.
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