The Big Picture John Waters has made bad taste about as delicious as any filmmaker since Herschel Gordon Lewis. His reveling in all things crass, grotesque, and transgressive made for a rallying cry against the conservative upbringing that Waters lived through as a young man. The gradual critical and commercial success of his microbudgeted independent films gathered enough steam that he began to slide more into the mainstream, with his first major attempt at that being Polyester.
Release Date May 29, 1981 Director John Waters Cast Divine , Tab Hunter , David Samson , Edith Massey , Mink Stole Runtime 86 mins Main Genre Comedy Writers John Waters Studio New Line Cinema What Is 'Polyester' About? Polyester follows Francine Fishpaw , who is a homemaker just trying to keep a happy household in the very-average suburbs. It's too bad, then, that all of her family members despise her for no good reason.
While it's still recognizable as a John Waters film, Polyester mostly cribs from Sirk in how it skewers the cozy comfort of suburbia with its soap opera mentality, notably scuzzed up with Waters' signature rawness and sense of unfiltered mania. The camerawork is more handheld than anything Sirk did, but Waters and cinematographer Dave Insley paid attention to his use of color and lighting to exaggerate the setting so that Francine's inner turmoil bubbles out onto the screen.
Divine was always a much better actress than her initial reputation as "drag queen turned amateur actress" sold her as, able to modulate her persona in a way that fit the material for each film that Waters cast her in.
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