Sublime

In short, even though Kehr remains one of the most responsible of film critics, he also proves that one reason why he deserves this distinction is that he knows the value of irresponsibility—as his treatment of Russ Meyer’s Supervixens also demonstrates.

La presse de l’industrie du spectacle l’a porté aux nues non parce que c’était un grand film, mais parce qu’il avait coché toutes les cases de notre obsession du moment concernant la politique identitaire. Le personnage principal était gay, noir, pauvre, martyrisé et victime.

(“cliche is in a sense the purest art of intelligibility: it tempts us with the possibility of enclosing life with beautifully inalterable formulas, of obscuring the arbitrary nature of imagination with an appearance of necessity” is a Leo Bersani quote which appears twice in Rainer’s Film

“There is something essentially ridiculous about critics, anyway,” said Randall Jarrell, a pretty good critic himself. “What is good is good without our saying so, and beneath all our majesty we know this.”