Tales of Ordinary Madness

Tales of Ordinary Madness

1981 · 101 min · IT · 6.1 (56 votes)
Dir. Marco Ferreri · Starring Ben Gazzara, Ornella Muti, Susan Tyrrell, Tanya Lopert, Roy Brocksmith, Katya Berger · Music Philippe Sarde
Drama

Poet/lecturer Charles Serking awakens from his alcoholic haze long enough to take a bus back to L.A. and plunge into an orgy of drink and sexual depravity.

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A raw, unflinching descent into the abyss of addiction and artistic angst. It's a gritty, surreal plunge into a self-destructive spiral, capturing the bleak beauty of Los Angeles' underbelly with a raw, poetic intensity.

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