Nice girls don’t wear cha cha heels!
Glamour has never been more grotesque than in Female Trouble, which injects the Hollywood melodrama with anarchic decadence.
Divine, director John Waters’ larger-than-life muse, engulfs the screen with charisma as Dawn Davenport, the living embodiment of the film’s lurid mantra, “Crime is beauty,” who progresses from a teenage nightmare hell-bent on getting cha-cha heels for Christmas to a fame monster whose egomaniacal impulses land her in the electric chair.
Shot in Waters’ native Baltimore on 16 mm, with a cast drawn from his beloved troupe of regulars. An endlessly quotable fan favourite, Female Trouble offers up perverse pleasures that never fail to satisfy.
