Shakedown (2018)
First screened in September 2018
Director: Leilah Weinraub. Documentary record of several years in the life of an underground black lesbian strip club in greater Los Angeles, spanning from the late 1990s to the early 2000s.
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Seamy and rough on first pass, but the edits and sound are so forceful and sustained they become hypnotic. Weirdly noble.
VOR:
④
Makes a dubious first impression but the film's refusal of standard grammars or "respectable" image-making make it unique and apt to its subject.
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Not yet reviewed in full. Grade: B