Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Director: John Cameron Mitchell

2001 / 95min / 35mm

Mitchell directs and stars in the outrageous and ebullient film adaptation of his own “post-punk neo-glam rock musical,” an Off-Broadway sensation about East German expatriate rocker Hedwig (Mitchell) who, following a botched sex reassignment surgery, lands in the US of A, there to pursue rock stardom and elusive former mentee/love interest Tommy Gnosis (Michael Pitt). “[A] clever, funny, wildly innovative film tricked out with surreal pop embellishments and Day-Glo colors… The kind of movie David Bowie might have made had he pushed his early-’70s gender-bending persona to its logical limit… [The songs] outline a witty crackpot theory of the evolution of human sexuality from a millennial (and transexual) perspective.” —The New York Times

Distributor: Park Circus