"Sweetie," a gleefully perverse and oddly touching tale of a fat, unhinged loose cannon driving her marginally less crazy family round the bend, sent critics and festival moviegoers scurrying from theaters, squealing in disgust, delight and — in discerning cases — both.
The work's two pas de deux are less pointless, but on the same program with "Polyphonia," they provided an object lesson in the difference between perverse partnering (lots of feet touching bald heads in Mr. Bigonzetti's case) and a meaningful extension of tradition.
The French fantastical tradition often disguises the strange and perverse with a deceptive lightness of touch.
There's something lacking, a touch of the bizarre or the perverse, with just one particularly nasty death to serve as a reminder that you're watching a Ben Wheatley film.
But then the perverse god of Hollywood surrealism reached down and touched it in the form of Peter Guber.
Of Orson Welles's Touch of Evil (1958), he wrote: "A baroque masterpiece – dark, complex, perverse, riveting...
(An imp of the cinematic perverse, Mr. Rivette surely delights in the fact that "Noli me tangere" is a Latin phrase meaning "Touch me not").
Equally perverse was the award of best actor to Olivier Gourmet, whose chief feature in the Dardennes brothers' touching but slight new film, "The Son", was the back of his head in claustrophobic close-up.
LONDON — Plastic woven into dresses and innocent flowers with a touch of fetish: Designers on Monday produced stunning collections by exploring the outer range of a perverse prettiness.
