17 Mar

19:00

Louis Hartlooper Complex

Tolsteegbrug 1, Utrecht

A screening of Toshio Matsumoto's subversive 1969 masterpiece, 'Funeral Parade of Roses'. The film follows a young transgender woman through the dazzling and dangerous nightlife of Tokyo's drag queen bars.

Film Screening 'Funeral Parade of Roses'

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In celebration of Queer History Month, we present the bewildering, kaleidoscopic masterpiece by director Toshio Matsumoto. One of the most subversive and intoxicating films of the late sixties, it takes a breakneck dive into a dizzying, unseen Tokyo nightlife of drag queen bars and fabulous divas, fueled by drinks, drugs, fuzz guitars, performance art, and black mascara. Follow Eddie, a young transgender woman, as love, jealousy, and rivalry put her life on the line in this intense and experimental film experience. None other than Stanley Kubrick cited Funeral Parade of Roses as a direct influence on his dystopian classic A Clockwork Orange.

Funeral Parade of Roses (1969) follows Eddie, a young transgender woman working in a bar in Tokyo. She falls in love with a married man and simultaneously becomes embroiled in conflicts with other bar workers, especially a jealous colleague. As the rivalry escalates, obsession, jealousy, and misunderstandings take over, leading to tragic events and a confrontation that drastically changes Eddie's life.