Elegantly perverse and as black as comedy gets, the film is like a sick joke served on a silver platter.

What emerges is recognizable but fully transformed Burroughs material.

Obviously this is not everybody's cup of weird tea: you must have a taste for the esthetics of disgust. For those up to the dare, it's one clammily compelling movie.

A challenging film to engage with if you're unfamiliar with the life and work of William S. Burroughs. Visually it's very surreal and fantastical (the typewriters!), but narratively it doesn't come together in a satisfying way.