In his bold, poetic approach, Clu Gulager manages to pack a decade's worth of experimentation into a fast, economical 20 minutes. Images dissolve and bleed into one another, freeze-frame and turn into paintings. Gulager also utilizes different camera speeds and even (and this is something I haven't seen before) the grain of the film to achieve his effects. Laszlo Kovacs' sun bleached photography helps immeasurably in streamlining such techniques into a powerfully eccentric, disturbingly compelling narrative. Far from pretentious (the word I'd use to describe most "experimental" films from the late sixties), this film comes off both as a celebration of childhood innocence and an uncompromising examination of its darkest extremes. And furthermore, Gulager and Kovacs achieve what may be the most unsettling final freeze frame ever.
曾经的脱衣舞秀台柱“魔力麦克”麦克·莱恩,因为一次交易失败小本生意彻底破产,在一家酒吧当着酒保,遇上了塞尔玛·海耶克饰演的女精英马可桑德拉,受诱惑再一次踏上了舞台——这一次是在伦敦,他们决定带来一场前所未见的大秀。