A Dirty Shame

R 18+
John Waters, 88 mins, USA, 2004, 35mm. Courtesy: Roadshow Films.

A Dirty Shame
A Dirty Shame
John Waters' 2004 outing was a return to trashy top form in a giddy sex farce that lives up to the bawdy outrageousness of Pink Flamingos (without quite going in whole-hog for that film's unmitigated shock value).

Sylvia Stickles (Tracey Ullman) is a repressed Baltimore homemaker who morphs into a rampant sex maniac after a freak head injury.

Nothing is taboo in Waters' overheated ode to depravity; his willing cast includes horny husband Vaughn (Chris Isaak), go-go dancer daughter Caprice, a.k.a. Ursula Udders (Selma Blair) and writhing tow-truck driver Ray Ray Perkins (Johnny Knoxville), who is convinced that Sylvia is the long-awaited twelfth apostle of erotic awakening. (Well sure, why not!)

"A non-stop raunchfest.Waters' most radical film in 25 years" The Village Voice
Dates   Fri 12 Mar 2010, 9.30pm
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