Suburbia Confidential
The Suburban Housewives defeat the
Desperate Housewives for a lot. The TV series by Marc Cherry was very
funny but in comparison to the history that the good C.Apostolof
Stephen tells in this film, Cherry's housewives seem just a little
'bored.
After bringing us in the cemetery of "Orgy of the Dead", the Bulgarian
director leads us to the "graveyard" of unsatisfied women who come back
to life seducing various
men.
The idea is simple, as the realization and the story and the structure
is the classic sketch. Nothing special, we might say that is trivial,
useless, but there is a perverse fascination that makes us say that
Stephen manages to create a film enjoyable not boring despite the
almost complete repetition of the events that are always in a room.
Perhaps the Bulgarian director chooses good actresses, good music or
perhaps because is a very short movie helps to avoid annoying the
viewer who by the way is hit by a fast and surprising start that
saves only the nude and sex scene.
The suffering of these women is told by Henri Legrand the psychiatrist
that is treating them. He introduces the history and launches each
segment, then leave the rest to the images.
The list is not very long and starts with the buxom Mrs. Fox who seduces the TV repairman of television and later the milkman.
Parsi Palmer instead had sex and then his partner wearing her
underwear. Sally Dane is tied to the bed and tickled by a salesman,
while Mona Carter has a lesbian relationship with a seller of
cosmetics. Finally Joy Graham, wife of a tennis player, had fun in a
hotel room with the waiter.
Easy. Linear. Without great efforts. But the whole in its overall
mediocrity, we reiterate that (amazingly) works. Damn A.C. Stephen!
Technical Data Sheet
Original Title: Suburbia Confidential
Year: 1966
Country: USA
Duration: 59 '
Director: A. C. Stephen
Cast: George Cooper, John Andrews, John Bealey, James Jeans, Mikel Angel, Louis Ojena, Phil Brian, Mark Crowe
Production Company: A.F.P.I. Productions