DIAMETRALE WarmUp: John Waters‘ FEMALE TROUBLE 2024

Curtain up for the Prince of Puke, the master of the Good Bad Taste - John Waters and one of his most important films: FEMALE TROUBLE. In it, the glamourously grotesque, horrible woman Dawn Davenport - incomparably embodied by the drag queen legend Divine - screams, fights, models and beats her way through a life full of impositions. Petty crime, rape, child abuse or pathological self-harm - FEMALE TROUBLE never misses an opportunity to shock.
Whether with the over-the-top story, the trash aesthetic or the exalted acting - Waters uses every cinematic means at his disposal to slam all kinds of hysterical prejudices against queer people onto the screen and thus in front of conservative America, exposing them to ridicule. Surprisingly, this shrill trash is extremely entertaining and still hilarious even on its 50th anniversary. A well-deserved cult classic and manifesto of the freaks - appropriately projected in analogue.
In co-operation with SLASH Filmfestival Vienna
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