The Village Voice, May 30th, 2007
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Cannes and Abel
'Whaddya love about it so much?" Abel Ferrara-director of the strip-club-set Go Go Tales, my favorite film at Cannes-is interviewing the interviewer.
Well, I say, it's consistent with the Ferrara oeuvre-King of New York, Bad lieutenant, Dangerous Game, et cetera-in that it's about performance, about struggling to make one's mark on the world, about having a philosophy and wanting to express it with flamboyance, but being reined in by the conservative demands of society at large. It's a portrait of the artist-Lotto-addicted club owner and emcee Ray Ruby (Wil...
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