A dirty shame
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | A dirty shame |
| Original title | A dirty shame |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2004 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | John Waters |
| script | John Waters |
| production | Ted Hope |
| music | George S. Clinton |
| camera | Steve Gainer |
| cut | Jeffrey Wolf |
| occupation | |
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A Dirty Shame is an American film satire of John Waters from the year 2004 .
action
The film is about a sex-tired, conservative housewife who is obsessed with sex after an accident and who shocks her fellow men with her unbridled urge. Eventually she realizes that she is not alone with her exaggerated drive, but that more and more people are "sex addicts". Determined to put a stop to the "sex addicts", the "neutrals" who are disgusted by sexual behavior group themselves together. A power struggle arises between these two groups.
As in all John Waters films, the action is set in Baltimore .
Reviews
Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times on September 24, 2004 that the film was "monotonous" and was sometimes "seriously wrong" in the assumption that it was funny. Ebert said that fetishes would not seem funny or shocking simply because of their mere existence, it needed more than "characters that they happily act out on the screen". Tracey Ullman is a "great" comedian, but to make the film funny, a "miracle" would be needed in addition to her portrayal.
James Berardinelli described the plot on ReelViews as "trite" and "uninteresting", the humor was "only occasionally funny". Tracey Ullman with her “manic energy” represents a ray of hope in the otherwise “pathetic” and “gloomy” production.
“Hard times for John Waters, America's most prominent professional provocateur of the 1970s. What was once considered shocking has largely lost its horror in the age of “ Scary Movie ” and Todd Phillips , and the former king of bad taste will not think of anything really revolutionary. "
"Obscenities, blasphemy, David Hasselhoff in the toilet: it still bores. Conclusion: The figures: always awesome. Unfortunately not the jokes. "
“John Waters, who filmed against topics such as homophobia and prudery in the 1970s and 1980s, is now on narrow ground, as his once provocative topics have long been taken up by mainstream cinema. Nevertheless, there was an amusing and evil moral comedy, which convinces with a top-class cast. "
Awards
Golden Trailer 2005 in the Trashiest Trailer category
Remarks
- When the MPAA asked which scenes had to be cut to avoid an "R" rating, the answer was: If everything were cut out to get a different rating, the film would only be 10 minutes long.
- Johnny Knoxville is one of the writers on the MTV series Jackass.
Web links
- A Dirty Shame in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- A Dirty Shame at rotten tomatoes (English)
- A Dirty Shame at Metacritic (English)
- A Dirty Shame in the online movie database
- Comparison of the cut versions R-Rated - NC-17 from A Dirty Shame at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for A Dirty Shame . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2005 (PDF; test number: 101 836 V / DVD).
- ^ Review by Roger Ebert
- ^ Review by James Berardinelli
- ↑ A Dirty Shame on kino.de
- ↑ A Dirty Shame on cinema.de
- ↑ A Dirty Shame. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .