Pearl is a Technicolor Nightmare - Xenomania 94
This week on Xenomania, we return to Ti West’s X trilogy for Pearl, the story of a young woman desperate to escape the farm, become a star, and outrun the suffocating life closing in around her.
We talk Mia Goth’s incredible performance, Pearl’s Technicolor nightmare aesthetic, the Wizard of Oz influence, the scarecrow, the audition, the dinner-table tension, Pearl’s mental decline, and the unforgettable ending. Along the way, we detour into awards-season strategy, movie theater candy, Slash or Stash, Rotten Tomatoes reactions, final scores, and Ryan’s Top 5 Alfred Hitchcock films.
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