Raped at 13 by her father’s mob partner, Lulu also was a witness to her father’s murder by immolation, which was, in fact, a human sacrifice. In the brutal opening, Sailor literally cracks open the assassin’s head with his bare hands. The mother is also concerned that he might have seen what happened the night she set her own husband on fire. Sailor has spurned the toilet-stall advances of Lulu’s neurotic and insanely obsessive mother, so she has sent an assassin to kill him. He is an Elvis-copy, and she is a gum-chewing, white trash, Southern belle. Laboriously slow in most places, it has very graphic killings (e.g., people’s heads being blown off) and very explicit, raunchy sex scenes. This murky melodrama bathed in sleaze, which unbelievably won first place at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival, is one of the most pretentious works ever put on screen.
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