Desperate Living was never meant to be some prescient allegory of rebellion, yet the film’s anarchy and mean-but-hilarious spirit is welcome and fulfilling in a way that few contemporary films can offer in this current moment.
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Caden Mark Gardner (he/him/his) is a freelance trans film critic and curator from Upstate New York. He has written for the Criterion Collection, Film Comment, Reverse Shot, MUBI, Los Angeles Review of Books, and many other publications. With Willow Maclay, he has co-authored Corpses, Fools, & Monsters: An Examination of Trans Film Images, which will be published in the summer of 2024.