Desperate Living 4K UHD + Blu-ray
'Desperate Living' Director: John Waters (1977) Criterion Collection 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray | Director-approved restoration
Following the unrepentant outrageousness of Pink Flamingos and Female Trouble, director John Waters brought his notorious trash trilogy to a fittingly twisted close with this antifascist fairy tale.
After a hysterical housewife murders her husband with the help of her fed-up housekeeper, the newfound “sisters in crime” escape to the bizarro shantytown of Mortville, a depraved penal colony presided over by a despotic queen whose tyranny pushes her subjects to shocking revolt.
Deviant cops, death by dog food, DIY surgery—Waters unleashes all this and more in an at once relentlessly warped and oddly moral vision of queer rebellion.
Special features include:
- Audio commentary featuring Waters and actor Liz Renay
- Optional dubbed Italian track
- Conversation between Waters and film programmer Cristina Cacioppo
- Back to Mortville, a tour of the film’s main Baltimore location, led by Waters
- Interview with actors Susan Lowe, Mary Vivian Pearce, and Mink Stole
- Interview with production designer Vincent Peranio
- Essay by critic Grace Byron
