Denti

Things They Don’t Teach in Any Dental School

Teenage horror-movie spoof, John Waters parody, No Nukes protest movie, twisted sex-education film, quasi-feminist fable, outrageous stunt: Mitchell Lichtenstein’s clever, crude comedy, “Teeth,” is all these and more.
Imagine Candy Christian, the title character of “Candy,” Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg’s satirical novel, as a contemporary mutant teen angel unknowingly afflicted with the mythical condition known as vagina dentata (a toothed vagina). In “Teeth” Dawn (Jess Weixler), that castration myth’s unfortunate embodiment, is a devout Christian who lectures on abstinence and leads the Promise, a group of teenagers who have pledged chastity until marriage. [...]

di Stephen Holden, articolo completo (3621 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 18 gennaio 2008