I could have done without the designer prison, but most of the other stylistic conceits work.
Overview
A trio of interweaved transgressive tales, telling a bizarre stories of suburban patricide and a miraculous flight from justice, a mad sex experiment which unleashes a disfiguring plague, and the obsessive sexual relationship between two prison inmates.
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Top critics, in their words
Arguably the strongest American debut feature of the '90s.
Todd Haynes' Poison is a conceptually bold, stylistically audacious first feature, a compelling study of different forms of deviance.
Boldly self conscious, Poison switches channels among its three stylistically varied but thematically linked tales with cumulative, claustrophobic power.
Compelling and quirkily intelligent; Genet, one feels, would have been impressed.
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