Desperately Seeking Susan DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN
(Susan Seidelman/1985/USA/104 Minutes/35mm/Cert 15)
(Fri 4th / midnight / £4/3)

To tie in with Independent Heroines 2005, the Midnight Movie is proud to present this underrated classic of 80s cinema - a film which so often gets lumbered with the mantle of being a mere "star vehicle" for the young Madonna, rather than being acknowledged as a fun, yet reasonably sharp dissection of female identity in the modern world, and the effect on ordinary people of the ideals of feminist polemic which dominated the previous decade. Despite being drenched in period detail - heinous crimes of fashion and riotous use of expressionistic colour - the film is a masterpiece of mistaken identity comedy with a healthy dollop of social satire. And the soundtrack's not too bad either.