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Title: Desperate Living is Waters' best.
Review: Polyester found Waters heading toward mainstream film-making, and it's his most successful attempt, as he retained his vision without selling out to studio censorship. It's also Divine's most realized performance. She is Waters'' Liz Taylor (the Virginia Woolf Liz, not the crappy Cleopatra Liz), and she works hard in this role. You'll reallly feel her torment through the laughs.Divine was touring with her club act when DL was filmed, so she's absent. But this is Waters' most outrageous narrative. It is one of thhe funniest American films ever made, period.Credit a great cast (the brillliant Mink Stole at her best) and a script that never quits in the laughs department. All this for under 25 bucks? Now that's what I call a bargain.
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