Tromeo is a trashy love story based on and borrowing from the Shakespeare classic. Kaufman seeks out opportunities for shocking visuals, all of which are softened by a consistently humorous and cartoonish mood. No subject is taboo, as incest, child abuse, masturbation, and priest molestation are all explored with a free, irreverent spirit. There are sequences in which silent film slapstick routines are redone with post-censorship, midnight movie gross-out sensibilities. Plus you can count on sex scenes with an appropriate reverence for the beauty of female breasts.
Interwined with the goofy gross-outs and the near-soft-core sex is a subtle and intelligent social commentary about the absurdity of life in the 1990's, mainly the lost-generation Gen-X types.
I saw it at a 4/2009 festival where Kaufman was around for Q & A and if you want to blame someone for spreading the rumor that the film is all in iambic pentameter you can start with the film's director because he made the claim twice. It didn't sound like pentameter to me, except for the passages taken from Shakespeare, and a few passages carefully written in a Shakespearean style.
Interwined with the goofy gross-outs and the near-soft-core sex is a subtle and intelligent social commentary about the absurdity of life in the 1990's, mainly the lost-generation Gen-X types.
I saw it at a 4/2009 festival where Kaufman was around for Q & A and if you want to blame someone for spreading the rumor that the film is all in iambic pentameter you can start with the film's director because he made the claim twice. It didn't sound like pentameter to me, except for the passages taken from Shakespeare, and a few passages carefully written in a Shakespearean style.