God Wears My Underwear (2005)

User Rating:

6.3/10   

Director:

Leslie Streit

Writer:

Leslie Streit (screenplay)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

Gender Confusion, Reincarnation and the Holocaust

Plot:

As Lavinia stands waiting for a train, she ponders her childhood, her fascination with drag queens, and her past life as a Tibetan monk who visited Berlin in 1933.

Plot Keywords:

Jewish | Tibetan Monk | Death | Holocaust | Drag Queen

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Joel Bischoff	...	Reporter
Frances Bockenfeld	...	Bar Patron, Skipper
Archie Bryan	...	Werner Schindheim
Lauren Bryan	...	Ursula Brandthauer
Susan Burke	...	Die Nachtigal
Laurent de la Cruz	...	Rowdy Bar Patron, Juanita
Todd Eckert	...	Nazi Youth
Pat Everett	...	Otto von Klemmer
Irene Hsaio	...	Sue Yin
Pat James	...	Mrs. Hamilton
Robin McCain	...	Nazi Thug, Bar Patron 4
Lovechild Moore	...	Circus Dog
Joel Naumann	...	Boy in Mirror
Masi Oka	...	Brother Eo (voice)
Angelica Passantino	...	Lara
Jack Streit	...	Dr. Freund
Leslie Streit	...	Grandma, Anna
Peter D. Sutherland	...	Brother Eo on road
Tho Vong	...	Brother Eo, Circus Performer
Jack Wiley	...	Otto, Bar Patron, Minkie
Jacqueline Wiley	...	Lavinia Hamilton
Jaqueline Wiley	...	Lavinia Hamilton

Runtime:

USA:45 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White (archive footage) | Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Filming Locations:

Bay Area, San Francisco, California, USA

Company:

Cinematiks

Trivia:

Joel Naumann, who plays the Boy in the Mirror in Lavinia's bathroom, is actually Lavinia"s (Jacqueline Wiley) twin brother.

Movie Connections:

Edited from Lavinia's Dream (1999)

Painfully bad. . . .

I saw this at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Film Festival today, and while I have pretty tolerant tastes, this was HORRID. I couldn't even appreciate it from a camp/ironic viewpoint.

It's supposed to be about a Bay Area woman named Lavinia Hamilton who finds she's the reincarnation of Eo, a Tibetan monk sent to Berlin in 1933, just as Hitler takes power. I didn't get through the whole thing, since 15 minutes of this was more than enough.

Ms. Streit, the filmmaker, said beforehand that it was "non-linear," but there's a difference between non-linear and utterly stupid. The computer animation was pointless and absurd, the acting wretched, and the story nonsensical -- but not in an inspired way. It was bad in the Ed Wood sense -- where the filmmaker doesn't get how bad it is. (Actually, I've seen PLAN NINE FROM OUTER SPACE, and it was FAR better than this.) Bad can be good at times, but this is NOT one of those times. Ouch.