From outright disgrace to global cultural treasure, the recent octogenarian iconoclast filmmaker/raconteur John Waters has lived a dozen lives since he first picked up a camera as a teenager in the '60s. By the time Waters made 1977's Desperate Living, he had shocked the world with some of the first midnight movie miracles like 1972's Pink Flamingos and 1974's Female Trouble, both of which put Waters and his voluptuous drag queen muse, Divine on the map. However, as wild as those films are, there is an argument to be made that Desperate Living is the absurdist acme of his wild early years. Peggy has completely lost touch with reality and her husband, Bosley, can't take it anymore. Just as he prepares to once again send...
[Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
Bengali (Bangladesh) · 
English (United States) ·