Polyester (1981)

 Polyester is a 1981 comedy film directed, produced, and written by John Waters, and starring Divine, Tab Hunter, Edith Massey, and Mink Stole. It was filmed in Waters’ native Baltimore, Maryland, and features a gimmick called “Odorama”, whereby viewers could smell what they saw on screen through scratch and sniff cards.
 The film is a satirical look at suburban life involving divorce, abortion, adultery, alcoholism, foot fetishism, and the Religious Right.
 Dreamlanders John Waters’ usual troupe of actors, the Dreamlanders, played minor roles in Polyester compared to Waters’ previous films Desperate Living, Female Trouble, and Pink Flamingos, which starred several Dreamlanders in major roles. Only two Dreamlanders, Divine and Edith Massey, received top billing in this film. Dreamlander perennials Mink Stole, Mary Vivian Pearce, Cookie Mueller, Sharon Niesp, Marina Melin, Susan Lowe, and Jean Hill played small roles in Polyester. While their parts are integral to the plot, they are much smaller compared to their earlier roles. Polyester was the first Waters film to skirt the mainstream, even garnering an R rating (his previous films were all unrated or rated X).
The film was set in a middle-class suburb of Baltimore instead of its slums and bohemian neighborhoods (the setting of Waters’ earlier films). “Women’s pictures” Polyester was a send-up of “women’s pictures”, an exploitative genre of film that was popular from the 1950 – 60s and typically featured bored, unfulfilled, or otherwise troubled women, usually middle-aged suburban housewives, finding release or escape through the arrival of a handsome younger man. “Women’s pictures” were typically hackneyed B-movies, but Waters specifically styled Polyester after the work of the director Douglas Sirk, making use of similar lighting and editing techniques, even using film equipment and movie-making techniques from Sirk’s era.

Η Φρανσίν είναι μια νοικοκυρά σε καλή γειτονιά των προαστίων της Βαλτιμόρης. Δυστυχώς για την «καλή χριστιανή», τα χρήματα που στηρίζουν τα ψώνια της προέρχονται από τον πορνό κινηματογράφο του συζύγου, οι γείτονες διαμαρτύρονται, ο γιος είναι επικίνδυνος ποδολάγνος, η κόρη μένει έγκυος και ο σύζυγος έχει δεσμό με τη γραμματέα.
Η ιστορική trash συνεργασία του Γουότερς με τη θεϊκή Ντιβάιν σε ρόλο απατημένης νοικοκυράς.


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