"What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense." - Charles Baudelaire
I like 'bad' taste just as much as I like 'good' taste. This film seems like a bad performance piece - strange and exotic location, OVER over- the-top costumes, just so that you would see the artists running around slurring words, falling across the floor, yelling, screeching, hissing... only this time it's fun because Burton and Taylor had more talent and charisma in their pinky finger than most artists of today could ever dream of having. And they were drunk, so I forgive them. They probably drove Joseph Losey nuts.
I like 'bad' taste just as much as I like 'good' taste. This film seems like a bad performance piece - strange and exotic location, OVER over- the-top costumes, just so that you would see the artists running around slurring words, falling across the floor, yelling, screeching, hissing... only this time it's fun because Burton and Taylor had more talent and charisma in their pinky finger than most artists of today could ever dream of having. And they were drunk, so I forgive them. They probably drove Joseph Losey nuts.