Packed with blood, babies, and bodily fluids, it's the latest brainchild of Super Meat Boy maker, indie legend, and sleeve-tattooed horror fanatic Edmund McMillen.
There's a comical cinema-centricity to "Gorgeous Girl," including a subplot involving a fanatical boy movie-maker (a sort of young-Truffaut surrogate in a cosseting household) and a plethora of on-screen movie in-references (including one ironic, bitter, and utterly apt one, in a jail cell, to Robert Bresson's "Pickpocket").
I spotted France's bad-boy film-maker and novelist taking a furtive puff while talking about his latest big-screen venture – one titled, with typical lack of self-effacement, The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq.
When Martin goes to apply for a job at a local golf club, he lists his proposed occupations as "bunker boy, golf stick maker, brolly dolly," and his work experience as "paint stirring, dish drying, architect".
It took five minutes for the names of all the actors, producers, editors, gaffers, grips, best boys, dialect coaches, wig makers and steelworkers to crawl by.
Ms. Mera skipped secondary school and in 1963 met Mr. Ortega, the son of a railroad worker and a maid who had left school at 13 to work as a delivery boy for a shirt maker.
Featuring the likes of Cat Power (often singing against type, on songs such as Action), Beastie Boy Mike D and hit-maker Ryan Tedder, these squelchy tunes pack much summer sunshine, and even kitsch jungle noises on the title track.
(To clarify, there ain't nothing wrong with the swine that this charcuterie came from, rather, they live off of the cast off whey from an upstate cheese maker, and boy do they live well off of it).
Services might play an important role in achieving that if policy makers conceive boys and men, not only as a menace but as an opportunity for improving girls' -and their own- reproductive and sexual health.
