The Cup and the Lip

The Cup and the Lip is a complex and challenging picture that will stimulate adventurous filmmakers for years to come Although its imagery is too dense varied and fastmoving to be thoroughly parsed after one viewing the film appears to be a regretful and perhaps sardonic essay on human frailtyand on the effort to stave off chaos by means of political and religious institutions which carry their own dangers of social control and mental manipulation David Sterritt Christian Science Monitor Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Estate Project for Artists with AIDS in 1998