1991 · drama
Poison
Directed by Todd Haynes1h 25m1991
A trio of interweaved transgressive tales, telling a bizarre stories of suburban patricide and a miraculous flight from justice, a mad sex experiment which unleashes a disfiguring plague, and the obsessive sexual relationship between two prison inmates.
Our read: Poison (1991) reads as a heavy, measured, surreal drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, measured, measured drama, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- measured
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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