In one of Andy Warhol's finest films, a 1965 drama of narcissism and its opposite, Edie Sedgwick “plays” movie actress Lupe Velez—sleeping, eating a meal, having her hair cut, and lolling around in a fancy apartment with Warhol's trademark mix of stylish camp and languorous anomie. A color scheme that seems to echo Sedgwick's skin and hair yields to a moving depiction of Velez's death—she was found with her head in her toilet bowl. A couple caveats: poor sound quality makes the dialogue mostly incomprehensible, though it doesn't matter much, and the print that will screen is badly scratched. Also showing are Jose Rodriguez-Soltero's
Jerovi (1965), a strikingly edited male-masturbation film complete with mirror and rose, and Rodriguez-Soltero's own
Lupe (1966). 130 min.
By
Fred Camper
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