Married to the Mob (Demme, 1988): Prince Charles Cinema, 8.35pm
This 35mm presentation also screens on June 13th.
Time Out review:
When philandering Mafia hitman 'Cucumber' Frank de Marco is killed by
his boss Tony 'The Tiger' Russo, his widow Angela (Pfeiffer) decides to
abandon her stockbroker-belt home (bursting with stolen goods) and start
anew with a job and a dingy room on the Lower East Side. Easier said
than done: obsessively amorous Tony (Stockwell) courts her with a
vengeance, while FBI agent Mike Downey (Modine) suspects that she
planned Frank's death with Tony. If the slim plot of Demme's romantic
black comedy lacks the outrageous panache and exhilarating twists of Something Wild,
the film nevertheless delights through its sheer good-humoured glee in
all that is kitsch or off-the-wall, and its wealth of inventive
incidental details. While it's all relentlessly shallow, the
performances, music and gaudy visuals provide a fizzy vitality for which
many other directors would give their right arm. Amazingly, for all its
hip anarchy, it's finally an oddly old-fashioned slice of
entertainment. Preston Sturges might have approved.
Geoff Andrew
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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