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Commentary – THE BALLAD OF GENESIS AND LADY JAYE
Have you ever heard the term “Pandrogyny”? Neither had I until I saw the documentary film The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye. Filmmaker Marie Losier documents this unusual love affair between an underground, industrial music front man/woman – Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and his/her better half – Lady Jaye. The two meet through a mutual dominatrix acquaintance and fall madly in love. So in love that Genesis and Lady Jaye decide rather than having a child (of which Genesis has two from a previous relationship) they would reform themselves into each other and therefore, symbolically, create one new person = Pandrogyny. The idea sounds like sick, obsessive love, yet strangely…
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Wrap Up of the Wrap Up from Sundance – Carol Coombes
Knowing that readers are seeking out Tinsel & Tine for commentary on new films and reviews on restaurants, here’s my final round-up from Sundance, embracing Hollywood star-power, Asian noodles and a different way to view movies! In these hard times, everybody knows somebody who has lost his or her job. In The Company Men directed by John Wells, three men Bobby Walker (Ben Affleck) Gene McClary (Tommy Lee Jones) and Phil Woodward (Chris Cooper), senior executives in a shipping company, find themselves causalities of successive (and devastating) rounds of corporate downsizing. If success is measured by grand sounding job-titles, a flashy car, membership to an exclusive golf-club, a large house…
