Of all the movies that made up what came to be known as New Queer Cinema
Bruce LaBruce's "The Raspberry Reich" is considered to be amongst the
most radical. The sex is certainly explicit and it's nicely shot by
James Carman though LaBruce's mixture of guns, sex, revolution and
extreme left-wing politics is still a difficult pill to swallow. It
might have helped if the acting or the script were any good, (they're
terrible), but this is just a porn film with better camerawork and
editing than most and what LaBruce assumes is a political agenda that
will appeal to intellectuals. He shot it in Berlin but it could just as
easily have been Budapest or Barking. You could view it as a comedy in
bad taste though I doubt if it will make you smile. On the plus side
it's marginally less boring than Godard's political pictures which might
have benefited from a dose of explicit sex but don't take that as
a recommendation.
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