Liquid Sky: The Alien Punk Film Only the 80s Could Make

Thu, 12 Sep 2024 11:00:00 +0000

Every so often a film arrives that could not have been made a year earlier or a year later, in any city but one, by anyone but the exact people who made it. Slava Tsukerman’s Liquid Sky is that film for early-eighties downtown Manhattan. A Soviet émigré director, a British-born actress writing and playing two roles, a plot about a UFO the size of a dinner plate that feeds on the chemicals the human brain produces at the moment of orgasm — it should not cohere, and part of its lasting fascination is that it barely does, yet holds together by sheer force of conviction and eyeliner.

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Liquid Sky: The Alien Punk Film Only the 80s Could Make