Drugs guide the movie's visual elements via trippy, rave-worthy animations. Melting rooms and visual distortions place the interviewees in an E-tastic experience. The film humorously and tastefully captures that era.
Corben will return home for his next project: taking a crack at Liquid nightclub's Chris Paciello, perhaps the Gatien of South Beach. The filmmaker believes that Paciello's story demonstrates the "rise and fall of the renaissance of South Beach — an era that ended with the opening of a T.G.I.Friday's on Fifth Street."
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Directed by Billy Corben. 103 minutes. Not rated. 8 p.m. Thursday, October 13; 7:45 and 10 p.m. Friday, October 14; 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, and 10 p.m. Saturday, October 15; and 1, 3:15, 5:30, and 7:45 p.m. Sunday, October 16, at O Cinema, 90 NW 29th St. Miami; 305-571-9970;
o-cinema.org. Tickets cost $7.50 to $10.50.
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