Review of Inserts (1975) by Paul Z — 14 Sep 2012
It's difficult not to feel as if we're watching a filmed play when a two-hour film takes place entirely in one room, but I'm kept enthralled by unexpected turns by its cast right before their heydays: a pre-Jaws Dreyfuss, pre-Friday Hoskins, pre-Alien Cartwright, ironically playing has-beens! Cinema is by turns paralleled with bootlegging, grave-digging and meat-wrapping and unwrapping as the sardonic wit of director John Byrum's muscular original script finds a seriocomic pitch of its own, drawing on Sunset Blvd and Tennessee Williams with bold strokes carried out in long takes in a histrionic confab of spread crotches and wisecracks.
This review of Inserts (1975) was written by Paul Z on 14 Sep 2012.
Inserts has generally received mixed reviews.
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