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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