Ms. 45 (Blu-ray)
She was abused and violated. It will never happen again!
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 20 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 25, 2014
- Originally Released: 1981
- Label: Drafthouse
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Zoë Lund | |
Performer: | Steve Singer, Jack Thibeau & Peter Yellen | |
Directed by | Abel Ferrara | |
Screenplay by | Nicholas St. John | |
Composition by | Joe Delia | |
Cinematography by | James Lemmo |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 7.4/10 --
Ferrara throws in a lot of interesting imagery, and he provides one of the more disgusting takes on New York City seen on film. Fans of exploitation shouldn't miss this transgressive gem.
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Way Too Indie
The sexual politics of Ms. 45 are blunt and easy to read, and the picture is riotously cathartic.
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Village Voice
Ferrara's movies have a way of being morally serious despite their sometimes silly genre trappings, and Ms. 45 provides a feast for feminist studies.
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Metro
With Grand Guignol relish, Ferrara depicts a city in the throes of a Wild West lawlessness that invites vigilante action.
New Yorker
...[The] camerawork is excellent in depicting the dark beauty of New York at night...
Variety
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Had Herzog seen it, he might have recognized Ferrara as a fellow genius, and one as weird as himself.
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Boston Globe
Ms. 45 lacks any original inventions... Everything is gratuitous. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
Product Description:
This early 1980s cult classic still stands as a potent and uniquely feminist entry in the urban revenge subgenre. Mute fashion seamstress Thana (Zoë Tamerlis) is raped on her way home from the grocery store and then raped by a second attacker who has broken into her apartment, all within the first 15 minutes of the film. She kills the second rapist with an iron and, after recovering from the shock, starts dismembering his body. Thana then wanders the New York streets at night in a sexy black dress with her attacker's gun strapped to her garter belt, blowing away any man who tries to pick her up. What begins as a revenge film gradually becomes a disturbing portrait of urban alienation and sexual fear. New York director Abel Ferrara (THE FUNERAL, BAD LIEUTENANT) directed this, his second film, from a religious-symbol-soaked script by longtime friend Nicholas St. John. Joe Delia composed the eerie EXORCIST-style score. Highly regarded by both audiences and critics, MS. 45 is that rare breed of exploitation film--intensely disturbing yet sexy, clever, intelligent, and even funny. Tamerlis delivers an astonishing performance as Thana, and Ferrara brilliantly captures her character's distorted perspective.