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Kamikaze Hearts (Blu-Ray)

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Collection: Kino Lorber
Format: Blu-ray
Year: 1986
Director: Juliet Bashore
Genre: Drama
Cast: Tigr Mennett, Sharon Mitchell, Jon Martin, Sparky Vasque, Jerry Abrahms
Runtime: 87
Language: English
Release Date: 2022-09-13
Description

Alternately distressing, instructive, contestable, and fascinating, Juliet Bashore’s quasi-documentary plunge into the 1980s porn industry takes an unsparing look at issues of misogyny, drug abuse, and exploitation via the story of two women caught in a toxic romance: the naive newcomer Tigr and her partner, the magnetic, imperious porn veteran Sharon Mitchell. Mesmerizing and unsettling, Kamikaze Hearts is both a fascinating record of pre-gentrification San Francisco’s X-rated underground and an intense, searing love story. The film offers a disturbing glimpse of the modification of bodies, feelings, and lives.