Through the Looking Glass: The Gold Diggers (opens in new tab)

Sally Potter characterised her first feature, The Gold Diggers (1983), as “a musical describing a female quest.”1 A labyrinthine, post-punk exploration of “the connections between gold, money and women,” Potter’s film is a mischievous, magic, anti-realist countercinema.2 It was poorly received in some quarters. “By any reasonable earthly standard,” wrote Janet Maslin in The New […]