Teenage delinquent Dawn Davenport, incensed after her parents do not give her the cha-cha heels she wanted for Christmas, runs away from home. After an illegitimate child and hairstylist husband bring her more misery, she's enticed into a life of crime when the owners of her husband's salon promise her fame and fortune.
Rated 4.5 / 5 from 2 logs on Katalog
Female trouble is an antidote to all the movies that romanticise poverty, a disgusting one but an antidote nonetheless. Smelly and refreshing, ridiculous and strangely reasonable, you’ll lose your appetite for the rest of the day but somehow feel fed and quite a few iconic quotes richer. Under the trashy surface the size of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, there’s a perfectly clean story with social commentary you can dive into if you want to. But you don’t have to, you can just stay and sunbathe at the top inhaling toxic gases and still have a great time. Watching this I immediately thought of Pedro Almodovar and wasn’t surprised at all when I found out that John Waters was actually a major influence on his early work. And I’m pretty sure on many other filmmakers, less obviously so. If you’re squeamish like me, consume with caution or not at all, I did have to look away a couple of times. Either way, I think its much more fun watching it with friends, if you have any, or parents, if you want them to never talk to you again
no idea how to review this, a very camp, very freaky, very shouty but somehow charming film? i can imagine how this became quite iconic not for the squeamish
Dominic forced me at gunpoint into her crummy little house, made me wear a feathered dress, locked me in a birdcage, and made me exhibit myself in front of her. And then made me watch this movie that I loved.
