Female Trouble
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Movie Reviews of Female Trouble
Movie Review: My favorite From John h2o's
Summary: 5 Stars
I still laugh out load to this one. By far my favorite of all his flicks. Devine at her pinnacle.Movie Review: Nice Girls Don't Wear Cha-Cha Heels!
Summary: 4 Stars
John Waters' 1972 PINK FLAMINGOS was an unexpected "midnight movie" hit, a highly deliberate exercise in ultra-low taste done in a low budget, guerilla-film making style. The 1974 FEMALE TROUBLE was Waters' follow up. It suffers from being unable to top PINK FLAMINGOS--but really, now, what could? So it may be best to judge the film on its own.
The story is a riff on 1950s and 1960s "good girl gone bad" B-movies. In this instance, however, it would be better described as "bad girl gone even badder and then some." Dawn Davenport (Divine) is high school trash to begin with, and when her parents refuse to get her cha-cha heels for Christmas she stomps out of the house, gets pregnant, and takes to a life of crime that ranges from rolling drunks to the occasional spot of house-breaking. She eventually fetches up with Donald and Donna Dasher (David Lochary and Mary Vivian Pierce), who run a beauty parlor for super-trash and who find in Dawn their ultimate concept of criminal beauty.
In addition to those already named, most of the early John Waters gang is on hand. Edith Massey begins the film by fondling her breasts and then stomps around in lace-up dominatrix attire as Dawn's enemy Ida. Cookie Mueller and Susan Walsh are on hand as Dawn's best friends Concetta and Chicklette, and Mink Stole psteals everything that isn't nailed down as Taffy, Dawn's neurotic daughter. Before the whole thing is over, fish have been thrown, hands have been lopped off, and Divine has done the dirty deed on a roadside mattress.
Now, not everybody likes early John Waters films. Far from it, and people who decide to watch FEMALE TROUBLE because they liked the musical version of HAIRSPRAY are in for a really, really rude awakening. Even some thirty years later, the content of FEMALE TROUBLE remains extremely extreme and incredibly tasteless, so be strongly forewarned. The film isn't in pristine condition, but it's surprising good considering how cheaply it doen to begin with, and it comes with a DVD commentary track by Waters himself, which is is very entertaining and worth a listen. Recommended--but if you've never seen an early Waters film, well, you're on your own.
GFT, Amazon Reviewer
Movie Review: If you found Hairspray adorable....
Summary: 4 Stars
John Waters's Female Trouble is an allegory about filmmakers, I suspect. Donald and Donna are the proprietors of a beauty salon. They interview and hand select the most hideous of potential clients. When they come across Dawn Davenport, they decide to take the horrors of her life and build her up in a catalysmic orgy of what is sometimes known as "gay delusion." When they decide to showcase Dawn at a theatre, her act does not go over well with the audience. On trial, they are called to cross examination, where both Donna and Donald deny everything. This struck me as a close semblance to film-makers and artists who try to wash their history clean of flops.
I came to this realization when John Waters himself, plays the defending lawyer for Dawn. In effect, he is defending a piece of art work to be it's glorious self, no matter how hideous.
Of course, the movie would be a gem just on the dialogue between Gator and Ida, a mother who begs her son to be gay, and warns of the dire consequences of becoming heterosexual.
A must for anyone who brought their family to the delightful Broadway play of Hairspray and felt they wanted to get better acquainted with Waters's previous work.
Movie Review: At least Divine wasn't a scientologist
Summary: 4 Stars
I saw this movies the other night on one of the cable channels. I was very suprised since I'd seen "Pink Flamingos" years ago so I know why you don't see the early works of John Waters on T.V. too often. Divine gave a great performance. Watching I got the feeling he really thought he was a hot young woman. Also the bizzare seen of Female Divine having sex with the sleazy guy also played by Divine. You have to remember this movie was made in 1974 long before cross-dressing and the Queer lifestyle were hip--this was a very dangerous occupation! John Waters without a doubt gave cinema something very original.Movie Review: Simply Divine
Summary: 4 Stars
It's Divine at her best. One is left wondering where they come up with the actors to play the parts, yet frightening to give it too much thought. No one else could pull-off the role of Dawn Davenport, crime model and loving mother, like Divine. And it is simply Divine right up to the execution.