Perestroika

“Perestroika” is a curious combination of documentary and fiction, politics and science, sophisticated structure and incompetent drama. The filmmaker, Slava Tsukerman, is a maximalist, best known for the 1982 post-punk freakout “Liquid Sky,” and his new movie throws plenty at the screen. He’s got a lot to get off his chest about the social and political transformations of the Gorbachev era, and he’s [...] Vai alla recensione »

In 1982, Russian émigré writer-director Slava Tsukerman made a controversial feature debut with "Liquid Sky," a venturesome and original pitch-dark comedy-fantasy centering on the sex- and drugs-saturated new wave scene in Lower Manhattan. The film's amusing conceit is that an alien, arriving via a flying saucer, is neither friend nor foe -- he's just looking for a heroin high.