Singapore Sling

A STORMY NIGHT AN EXHAUSTED AND injured traveller arrives at a mysterious house where a woman and her daughter are in the middle of burying a man in mud and dirt. The traveller calls himself Singapore Sling and is looking for his mistress Laura - accompanied by the music from Otto Pre minger's film classic Laum - despite or because he believes her to be dead: the subtitle of the film is ''The Man Who Loved Corpses''. He walks straight into the women's trap and insane hedonistic games begin but things don't work out the way Singapore Sling expected ... The director, inspired by old horror movies and Film Noir, has made an ironic, vulgar and dark comedy; a stylistic exercise in bizarre sexuality and violence. Some comments on the film, taken from the Greek press are: ''morbid'', ''sado-masochistic'', ''perverse'', ''triumphs Sade and Bataille''. The film photographer, Aris Stavrou, received a prize at the film festival in Thessaloniki 1990.
Comment:
THE GREEK FILM SINGAPORE SLING will most likely become scandal number one at this festival. The reason is simple. That is, after having seen the film it's considerably easier to number any possible remaining sexual perversions, than to list the catalogue of abominations, depicted with nearly pornographic detail, in the film. It's incest between mother and daughter, punishment, bondage and torture in numerous variations - urine, vomit, threats and masturbation, add to that some murder and necrophilia, and not to forget - the most disgusting of all- some meals that leave much to wish for Marco Ferreri's Blow-Out.
On the surface Singapore Sling is an extraordinarily perverse and provocative story. Visually, however, it's made with great fantasy, the photography in black and white. And, for those who understand the world of the sexually grotesque, the film brings you back to Pasolini's morbide Salo - 120 Days of Sodom and the American underground director Richard Kern's depraved and brutal Post-Punk adventure in the 80's New York. Shortly, what's disgusting in Singap01'e Sling starts approximately where David Lynch's Blue Vell'ctends.
Despite its obviously repulsive content this is a humorous film which both intelligently and amusingly makes an ironic pastiche based on a variety of different film styles. In Singapore Sling Film Nair and silent film meet marquis de Sade, and it's not without a twinkle in the eye. _
GÖRAN LINDEROTH

Medverkande
Meredith Herold, Panos Thanassoulis, Michele Valley: Producent
Marie-Louise Batholomew: Manus
Nikos Nikolaidis: Foto
Arla Stavrou: Talat språk
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