A specialty item: Todd Haynes's 16mm miscellany of three interwoven stories "inspired by the novels of Jean Genet." The one that has to do with a homosexual thief in a French prison is most noticeably so. The other two are a parody of a 1950s black-and-white sci-fi thriller ("Leper Sex Killer on the Loose," screams a newspaper headline) and a parody of a True Crime documentary (Patricide Division). Ambition far outleaps capability. From a strictly cinematic standpoint, it's more heartening, and more rare, to see something so far underground come so far into the light than it is to see something homoerotic do so. But partisan interest of some sort -- even if only pro-sci-fi or pro-black-and-white -- is almost essential to prod you through the torpor. (1991) — Duncan Shepherd
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