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And now for something completely different: From
Sebastian Gutierrez, scripter of
Gothika and
Snakes on a Plane, there is
Women in Trouble, a wildly uneven but compulsively watchable mix of high camp and grand passions, soap opera and soft-core sex. Very much in the deliriously lewd style of Pedro Almodovar – who has co-written unproduced scripts with Gutierrez, and gets a shout-out in the closing credits – this exuberantly uninhibited indie, which recently world premiered at
SXSW, has the anything-goes spirit of something tossed off in a single burst of collaborative energy. As director, Gutierrez serves his saucy scenario well, maintaining a pace that seldom decelerates from a hot trot while maneuvering through a busy patchwork of interconnected plotlines. (Simply offering a synopsis of its crazy-quilt plot likely will prove problematical for any critic bound by limited wordcounts.) But the candy-colored blur wouldn’t count for nearly as much without the full-throttle performances by a virtually all-female cast led by a gorgeously game
Carla Gugino (above) and a sexily perplexed
Adrianne Palicki. You can read my Variety review
here.
4 comments:
Any updates on theater or dvd release dates??
I want to see this film! :)
No word of a distributor yet. Will post when I get the good news.
Funnily enough, it has an Australian distributor who recently acquired the film in Cannes and yet no US distributor!
Comes out next week in theaters in LA & NY!
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