![]() With a set design at once primitive and garish- The Cabinet of Dr. Paul’s brutal backlash is echoed in affairs with her jailbait daughter (Szlasa) and other women, all drawn to his innocence. Fittingly, the first woman to oblige is Petra von Kant herself, Margit Carstensen, here a divorced parent who solicits Paul’s companionship but won’t marry a cripple. Stewart’s fever-dream alter ego is Paul, who-in the great Fassbinder tradition-just wants to be loved. ![]() It suggests, at the very least, that Stewart’s fantasies are preferable to Glover’s. Stewart (who died in 2001) wrote and stars in this long-nurtured, unrelated sequel, which is as surprising for its visual boldness-it looks like Lovelace-era porn as staged by David Lynch-as it is for its sincerity. ![]() Stewart he was the man with cerebral palsy lying in the clamshell, enjoying a hand job from the woman in the monkey mask. ![]() Survivors of Crispin Glover’s appalling debut as a writer-director, What Is It?-with its predominantly Down-syndrome–afflicted cast and inexplicable malice toward snails-will be familiar with Steven C. ![]()
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