NAKED LUNCH (1991) ¢ ¢ ¢
D: David Cronenberg
Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm,
Julian Sands, Roy Scheider, Monique Mecure
David Cronenberg's eye-filling, downbeat hallucination about a writer and his relationships with his wife, his friends, his work, his ambivalent sexual orientation, his typewriter and his drugs. Watching this is like crawling around in William S. Burroughs' skull, a mystifying, paranoid, junked-up landscape inhabited by giant bugs, organic typewriters and even a talking asshole. It's not a world you'd want to spend a lot of time in, but fans of Burroughs and weird cinema might want to take a look. Weller gives a wry, deadpan performance in the Burroughs role, while others stand in for Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Paul and Jane Bowles.
Ian Holm
(1931-2020)
