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Beatty's films The Black Glove, The Elegant Spanking and Les Vampyres
are a Nykvist/Bergman/Polanski festival: dramatic close-ups; massive,
internalized longing; and gorgeous suffering. Think Persona meets
The Tenant with some genuinely hot sex. Beatty is fonder of dramatic,
artificial lighting than Nykvist, a little more along the lines
of Sam Fuller mixed with Fritz Lang, and her soundtrack selections
are very Bergmanesque...
SASHA,
Eye Weekly |
Beatty makes porno into fetishistic film noir; imagine a kinky
Louise Brooks, a sadistic Marlene Dietrich (who's the top?), and
some nipple clamps and hot wax, and you're beginning to get the
idea...
Tristan Taormino, The Village Voice
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