> on 6/27/03 10:40 AM, Mark Sullivan at
DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net wrote:
>
> [...] Also, imdb showed a movie was made of Frisk.
Has anyone seen it?
> I can't imagine it getting less than an NC-7 if it
is even close to
> faithful to the book.
> --
The word-of-mouth for the "Frisk" movie is
consistently bad and, much as I'd like it to be wrong, pretty
convincing. Here's a snippet from Tom Charity capsule review
in Time Out:
"[Todd
Verow]'s first film as director, (from
a
cult novel by Dennis Cooper) boasts occasional bursts
of
flashy editing, lousy performances (exception: Parker
Posey
in a ten-minute cameo as a fag hag only too happy
to
participate in a spot of orgiastic murder), and a
sour
sensibility quite in keeping with the characters."
That "first film as a director" would
seem to be the crucial bit. When dealing with subject matter
that is, in essence, unfilmable, you want a director who
knows what he or she is doing -- cf. Mary Harron and
"American Psycho." Prior to "Frisk," Verow was known
primarily as a cinematorgapher for Gregg ("Totally F***ed
Up," "The Living End") Araki. Now if Araki himself had been
the director...
The book of "Frisk" is very
much worth reading, by the way. I'm a Cooper fan -- which is
to say that I find him, in equal parts, horrifying and
fascinating and off-putting and endearing. Even if he does
force me to trot out the old joke about the working title for
[insert name of latest novel] being "Kids, Don't Try This At
Home."
c.
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