A robot love triangle in dystopian drag? The 80s were unhinged and I love it.
In a dystopian future, the population is divided between the elite "numbers" and the destitute "names" who escape the hardships of the their lives at a magic cabaret run by Zax. When Zax falls for a slumming-it "number" he builds a robot replica of her.
Costume
Cabaret drag that out-budgets the entire production
Practical Effects
The robot replica looks like a department store mannequin and it's perfect
Director
Tony Bicât
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was a BBC TV movie that aired once and vanished for decades—bootleg VHS copies were the only proof it existed until a 2022 restoration.
Director Tony Bicât was a radical theatre figure who smuggled queer aesthetics into mainstream British TV—this is basically his coded manifesto on performance and power.
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