The concept of movies acting like drugs with your nervous system is cranked up to freebase intensity in the spellbinding French cult musical Queens of Drama, directed by Alexis Langlois with the screenplay by Langlois, Carlotta Coco, and Thomas Colineau. The film opens in the year 2055, with the online return of the internet’s original broadband bitch, Steevy Shady (Bilal Hassani). Steevy has gotten a lot of plastic surgery, chasing the former glory days of YouTube celebrity commentary acclaim. Today, Steevy has returned to finally tell the untold details of the lifelong love affair between two of the 21st century’s biggest music superstars: pop diva Mimi Madamour (Louiza Aura) and electro punk sensation Billie Kohler (Gio Ventura).
Going back fifty years to 2005, we are shown how the two met while waiting to audition for the hot singing contest TV show Starlet Factory. Mimi makes it through while Billie is humiliated and is thrown out while accusing the producers of the show of being instruments of the patriarchy. Later, Mimi takes her bestie Harmonie (Alma Jodorowsky) to an underground gay club to see Billie perform with her band, Slit. Billie sings directly to Mimi, then she pulls out of herself a metal handle barred butt plug and puts it in Mimi’s open palms.
“…the untold details of the lifelong love affair between two of the 21st century’s biggest music superstars…”
They are swept up in a passionate romance, which Mimi is forced to keep secret, as her exploding pop music career won’t allow her to go public about being a Lesbian. Meanwhile, a Mimi superfan named Steevy, with only a few followers, starts posting online, calling others to join the Mimi Army. When Billie can’t take the secrecy anymore, everything goes off the frosty white rails.
As mentioned above, Queens of Drama is cult movie crack. It hits harder than other cult movies, kicks in faster, and is an utterly relentless rocket blast into deep fabulousness. Langlois has delivered the most outrageous cult movie musical since The Phantom of the Paradise, blowing past all the competition, leaving a cloud trail of narcotic glitter.
"…hits the same heights of frontier breaking hyper-stylization as Natural Born Killers"
