Manhattan Love Suicides (1985)

Directed by

Richard Kern

Genre

drama, horror, romance

Country

United States

Runtime

35 min

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 12 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a 1985 anthology of four short comedy films set in a rundown part of New York City during a time of high crime and drug use. The segments show people acting out in destructive and absurd ways.

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What happens

The Manhattan Love Suicides is a 1985 American underground comedy film series written, produced and directed by Richard Kern. It consists of four short films: Stray Dogs, Woman at the Wheel, Thrust in Me, and I Hate You Now. Shot in Manhattan's Lower East Side in the mid-1980s, a turbulent time when the HIV/AIDS epidemic was at its height, and poverty, crime, violence, prostitution and drug consumption were running rampant in New York City, Kern's anthology film is a part of the Cinema of Transgression movement (a term coined by Nick Zedd who also appears in the Woman at the Wheel and Thrust in Me segments). It was shot in Super 8mm film. The UK-based rock band The Manhattan Love Suicides took its name from the film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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