Funeral Parade Of Roses BFI New program on Hayes’s score

New program on Hayes’s score featuring Redmond

In 1921 England

Her erratic behavior is interpreted as demonic possession—leading the villagers to turn against her with physical and sexual violence

and slaves—forcing him to choose between selling out and maintaining his self-respect

Funeral Parade Of Roses BFI New program on Hayes’s scoreLong unavailable in the U. S., director Toshio Matsumoto's shattering, kaleidoscopic masterpiece is one of the most subversive and intoxicating films of the late 1960s: a headlong dive into a dazzling, unseen Tokyo night world of drag queen bars and fabulous divas, fueled by booze, drugs, fuzz guitars, performance art and black mascara. No less than Stanley Kubrick cited the film as a direct influence on his own dystopian classic A CLOCKWORK ORANGE.