Art as extreme sport (12/7/00)
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Hideous Kinky. [Gillies MacKinnon, 1998. Screenplay by Billy MacKinnon, from a novel by Esther Freud.]
The fetching but rudderless Ms. Kate Winslet, accompanied by the two love-children of her liason with a British poet, wanders about Morocco in 1972 in search of Sufi wisdom. The story is told from the point of view of the little girls [who are inordinately fond of devising little-girls’ games — how else could you get the punchline and thus the title to come out “Hideous Kinky”?], and is apparently intended to refute the classical dictum that drugs will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no drugs. — Maybe it’s time to start wondering when we’ll see the first round of narratives written by children of children of hippies, bitching about how straitlaced and unimaginative their parents were and re-embracing the irresponsibility of their grandparents.
____________No, really (12/1/00)
