Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
STINKING HEAVEN
Synopsis
Jim and Lucy run a commune for sober living out of their New Jersey home. Although there’s constant bickering and many fires to be put out, they have established a haven for these outcasts. But the harmony is interrupted when Ann, a recovering addict and the ex-lover of one housemate, arrives.
Synopsis
Jim and Lucy run a commune for sober living out of their New Jersey home. Although there’s constant bickering and many fires to be put out, they have established a haven for these outcasts. But the harmony is interrupted when Ann, a recovering addict and the ex-lover of one housemate, arrives.
Our take
Filmed on a bygone video camera, Stinking Heaven immerses you in the darkest crevices of the 1990s: a rehab commune housing a coven of colorful yet caustic personalities. A lucid vision of Sartre’s assertion that “hell is other people,” written with an utmost sincere sense of anarchy. Oddly sublime.