Poison
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DVD Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 25 minutes
- Video: Black & White / Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 21, 2011
- Originally Released: 1991
- Label: Zeitgeist Films
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Susan Norman, James Lyons, Scott Renderer & Larry Maxwell | |
Directed by | Todd Haynes | |
Edited by | Todd Haynes & James Lyons | |
Screenplay by | Todd Haynes | |
Produced by | Christine Vachon | |
Director of Photography: | Maryse Alberti |
Entertainment Reviews:
Boldly self conscious, Poison switches channels among its three stylistically varied but thematically linked tales with cumulative, claustrophobic power.
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Newsweek
Rating: A- --
captures the spirit of Genet's work
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Old School Reviews
I could have done without the designer prison, but most of the other stylistic conceits work.
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Chicago Reader
Compelling and quirkily intelligent; Genet, one feels, would have been impressed.
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Time Out
Todd Haynes' Poison is a conceptually bold, stylistically audacious first feature, a compelling study of different forms of deviance.
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Variety
Rating: 2.5/4 --
An exercise in cinema of ideas that, while audacious and occasionally compelling, is ultimately less than the sum of its parts.
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TV Guide
...There's raw talent obviously in evidence...
USA Today
Product Description:
In director Todd Haynes's feature film debut, POISON, three stories, each told in their own unique cinematic style, illustrate the lives of a people living outside the fringes of "normal" society. There is HERO, the pseudo-documentary about a seven-year-old boy who kills his own father; HORROR, a sci-fi spoof about a brilliant research scientist who becomes the victim of his own biochemical discovery when he finds the source of the human sex drive; and HOMO, a noirish drama exploring the obsessive, and sexual, relationship between two male prisoners. As each compelling story is told, their themes become inextricably linked, and the tension intensifies, culminating in an explosive climax of unsettled emotions. POISON is perhaps Todd Haynes most experimental, and most controversial, film.
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- Sales Rank: 94,210
- UPC: 795975113533
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