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Mala Noche (Gus Van Sant, 35mm, 78 min., 1985)
7pm and 9pm Admission: $5 general / $4 students, seniors
The Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival is proud to co-present the local premiere of the new 35mm print of Gus Van Sant's first feature "Mala Noche”.
Based on the Walt Curtis autobiographical novel of the same name, "Mala Noche" presents the desperate, lovestruck Walt, a liquor store clerk madly in love with a young Mexican laborer, in the country illegally and in command of only a very little English. Walt's attentions strike him as strange and undesirable -- only prompting Walt to work to create whatever kind of bond he can with this young man. Shot in gorgeously gritty black and white and wonderfully appreciative of the Portland, Oregon environs that Van Sant would use in later films like "Drugstore Cowboy" & "My Own Private Idaho."
