Kamikaze Hearts (Bashore, 1986): BFI Southbank, NFT2, 6.20pm
66th LONDON FILM FESTIVAL (5th - 16th October 2022) DAY 9
Every day (from October 5th to October 16th) I will be selecting the London Film Festival choices you have a chance to get tickets for and the movies you are unlikely to see in London very soon unless you go to see them at the Festival. Here is the LFF's main website for the general information you need. Don't worry if some of the recommended films are sold out by the time you read this as there are always some tickets on offer which go on sale 30 minutes before each screening.
This film also screens at BFI Southbank on October 15th. Details here.
Chicago Reader review:
Alternately distressing, instructive, contestable, and fascinating,
Juliet Bashore’s 1986 documentary about a lesbian couple working in the
porn industry—a cynical older woman (Sharon “Mitch” Mitchell), who is a
seasoned porn star, and her lover (known as Tigr), who is an uneasy
newcomer to this world, where drugs play a significant role—offers a
disturbing glimpse of the modification of bodies, feelings, and lives.
The camera’s presence has a shifting role in the film, moving from
seemingly impartial witness of certain events to stimulus and catalyst
for certain others, and this tends to confuse and change one’s
relationship to both the film and its characters. Rarely has the
alienation implicit in the porn business been so tellingly exposed, but
in the process of exposing the film raises a few questions about its own
tactics and complicity. And it isn’t only porn that gets deconstructed;
the central relationship between Mitch and Tigr seems to have been
figuratively and literally taken apart.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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