Madame Wang's

MADAME WANG'S represents another over-the-top, fiercely funny attack on social mores and cinematic forms from the underappreciated "underground" director, Paul Morrissey. This 1981 curiosity makes most of the other films of the past year seem tame by comparison.

MADAME WANG'S takes place in Long Beach in the early 1980s, when the Cold War between the East and West got even colder. Lutz (Patrick Schoene), an East German undercover KGB agent, comes to America to plot a Communist invasion by connecting with Western leftist sympathizers like Jane Fonda. Lutz first meets a prostitute (Christina Indri), who introduces him to her over-stimulated pimp, Billy (William Ed...