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Tura! / Cody Jarrett

  • Country and year: USA 2024
  • Rating: 16
  • Duration: 106 min
  • Director and writer: Cody Jarrett
  • Producer(s): Cody Jarrett, Siouxzan Perry
  • Cinematographer: David E. Diano
  • Language: English
  • Subtitles: No subtitles
  • With: John Waters, Kitten Natividad, Pamela Des Barres, Dita Von Teese, Margaret Cho, Ted V. Mikels, Peaches Christ, Angel Walker, Lani Satana, Jade Satana
  • Format: DCP

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[10/10]
Tura! is the exact kind of immortalization Satana deserves, a shrine to sexy power that will break you in half.”
– Michael Talbot-Haynes / Film Threat

“This playful but reverent and often quite unexpectedly moving documentary offers a fascinating portrait that reveals some of the late star’s secrets while generating a few new mysteries of its own.”
– Damon Wise / Deadline

“The film’s weaving of Satana’s career, her struggles, and her immense strength together with her unapologetic sexuality demonstrates that feminism and lust can co-exist joyously. — Heartbreaking, funny, and inspiring”
– Glenn Gaylord / The Queer Review

“Spend any time around Tura Satana and you can’t help but fall under her spell.”
– James McDonough / Big Bosoms and Square Jaws – The Biography of Russ Meyer (2005)

Tura Satana was an icon — a burlesque dancer-turned-actress who led the cast of the cult classic Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! — and also an enigma, appearing in only two more films before disappearing from public view for the better part of three decades. Cody Jarrett’s affectionate documentary fills in the gaps of her life before and after her fling with fame, and it’s a wild ride, full of fascinating plot twists (including a real-life rape-revenge story that rivals anything in Faster, Pussycat), famous faces (Elvis Presley, Billy Wilder and Harold Lloyd all show up) and the heartwarming details of her unexpected late-career revival. Jarrett doesn’t paper over her personal flaws, particularly as a mother, so it’s not an all-out valentine. — Informative, well-assembled and — quite a lot of fun.”
– Jason Bailey / The New York Times

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