[lbo-talk] a vile cesspit of a film

[Dennis Claxton]

from a review of the movie version of The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things:

"But now that we know that (J.T.) LeRoy is a 
chimera created by a writer with equal gifts for 
fiction and fraud, Deceitful is a vile cesspit of 
a film with no redeeming qualities at all. It’s 
one of those icky movies about the United States 
that certain kinds of Europeans like to 
make­imagine Werner Herzog’s Stroszek with none 
of the artistry­that makes you feel like a 
terrier is pushing your nose into the mess he 
just left on the kitchen floor. One suspects that 
cowriter-director Asia Argento was in on the 
LeRoy hoax, as she at one point claimed to be 
carrying JT’s baby, but we’ll have to let history 
(or New York magazine) sort that one out."

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