1966 | United States | Fiction

Chafed Elbows

  • English 58 mins
  • Director | Robert Downey Sr.
  • Writer | Robert Downey Sr.
  • Producer | Robert Downey Sr.

STATUS: Released

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This riot of bad taste was a breakthrough for Downey, thanks to rave notices. Visualized largely in still 35 mm photographs, it follows a shiftless downtown Manhattanite having his “annual November breakdown” as he wanders from one odd job to the next, coming across all sorts of sordid types, from a desperate independent filmmaker to a destitute dirty-sock sniffer. And there is something to offend everyone: incest, murder, bad pop songs, you name it.

Satire Absurdity Underground Manhattan Transgression
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The Criterion Collection
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