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Ms .45

1981

Abel Ferrara

Zoë Lund, Albert Sinkys, Darlene Stuto, Helen McGara ...

6.3

1,583

Thriller. Drama Thana, a mute seamstress is raped by two different assailants in a single evening but she manages to bludgeon her second attacker to death and keeping his .45 automatic. This act of violent release triggers a latent misanthropic impulse in the waifish Thana -- who was not very stable to begin with -- and she begins pumping hot lead into any predatory male she can find.

	Author	Review
United States	Kevin Jagernauth IndieWire	"It’s rather remarkable how much Ferrara wrings out of what is a pretty thin premise in a script that doesn’t really have much in the way of plot"	POS
United States	Rob Hunter Film School Rejects	"The genius here is that while the pieces are in play for a straight exploitation film they’re actually put together in a surprisingly fresh way"	POS
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"[Ferrara] has a tin ear for dialogue and an evident penchant for ludicrous material. But beyond that, he is clearly a talented fellow"	NEU
United States	Jake Cole Slant	"If Lund steals the show, though, Ferrara too displays his chops all over the place (...) The film often displays sophisticated direction (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"[The director] brings a patina of slick visual sophistication to this rape/revenge thriller; more importantly, he allows a coherent, if extreme, feminist position to emerge"	POS

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