Session #405 - Female Trouble

Name: Session #405 - Female Trouble
Start: 2024-12-11T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-12-11T21:00:00-05:00
Location: Alamo Drafthouse DC Area (Ashburn)

Schedule

Wed Dec 11 2024 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Alamo Drafthouse DC Area (Ashburn) | Ashburn, VA

Trailer:

Tickets: https://drafthouse.com/northern-virginia/event/film-club-female-trouble
A HIGH POINT IN LOW TASTE
Glamour has never been more grotesque than in FEMALE TROUBLE, which injects the Hollywood melodrama with anarchic decadence. Divine, director John Waters’ larger-than-life muse, engulfs the screen with charisma as Dawn Davenport, the living embodiment of the film’s lurid mantra, “Crime is beauty,” who progresses from a teenage nightmare hell-bent on getting cha-cha heels for Christmas to a fame monster whose egomaniacal impulses land her in the electric chair. Shot in Waters’ native Baltimore on 16mm, with a cast drawn from his beloved troupe of regulars, the Dreamlanders (including Mink Stole, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Edith Massey, and Cookie Mueller), this film – the director’s favorite of his work with Divine – comes to life through the tinsel-toned vision of production designer Vincent Peranio and costume designer/makeup artist Van Smith. An endlessly quotable fan favorite, FEMALE TROUBLE offers up perverse pleasures that never fail to satisfy.