Roman Candles

Roman Candles (1967) — comedy film. Directed by John Waters. Starring Divine, Mark Isherwood, David Lochary, Mona Montgomery. This page maps 2 characters and 2 relationships between them as an interactive character network.

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An experimental collage combines provocative performance images with a deliberately disjointed recorded soundtrack.

Comedy · 6.8/10 · 28 min · 1967

Shot on 8mm, and featuring the introduction of Divine, John Waters' sophomore film is a plotless collage of random incidents involving sex, drugs, religion and The Wizard of Oz, it was shown with an equally random soundtrack mixing “obnoxious radio advertisements, rock 'n' roll and press conferences with Lee Harvey Oswald's mother”. It was shown three times publicly, but never released commercially.

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Related entry on Wikidata (Q3440837), public domain (CC0).