'Please Baby Please' Trailer: Get Camp With Director Amanda Kramer On October 28

Camp’s an acquired taste, but when it’s good, it is oh so good. Case in point: Amanda Kramer‘s “Please Baby Please,” fresh off its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam earlier this year.

The new film stars Andrea Riseborough and Harry Melling as a couple in 1950s Manhattan who witness a murder and become the obsession of a local greaser gang. And all the new attention opens up the couple’s sexual identities in unexpected ways…

Here’s the film’s official synopsis, courtesy of Music Box Films:

Suze and Arthur live an outwardly traditional lifestyle as the Lower East Side’s most bohemian Eisenhower-era couple. The pair’s cage is rattled when they encounter a gang of sadistic, leather-clad greasers known as The Young Gents. Suze and Arthur’s initial thrust of fear evolves into confusion of thrill and lust. This sudden exposure to flamboyant masculinity unlocks the realization that Suze is an aspiring leather daddy who mistook herself for a housewife. Meanwhile, the perpetually sensitive Arthur’s obsessive gender trouble goes sideways when Young Gent Teddy sparks a queer desire. PLEASE BABY PLEASE presents a full spectrum of underground fetishism and seductive musical asides featuring alluring cameos by Demi Moore and Cole Escola. Visionary filmmaker Amanda Kramer pegs the hetero hellscape of the 1950s in a witty, syncopated riff that plays like a high camp emission from your wildest dreams—bathed in silk, sweat, and bisexual lighting.

Alongside Risebourough and Melling, and Moore and Escolas’ cameos, “Please Baby Please” also stars Karl GlusmanRyan SimpkinsMatt D’EliaKarim Saleh, and Jake Choi.  Jake Sidney CohenJaz SinclarDana Ashbrook, and Mary Lynn Rajskub round out the main cast.

“Please Baby Please” is Kramer’s follow-up to her 2018 film “Ladyworld,” an all-female take on “Lord Of The Flies.”  

Variety called “Please Baby Please” “an archly stylized “West Side Story” by way of Kenneth Anger.” If that description doesn’t get camp fans excited for Kramer’s film, what will? “Please Baby Please” hits theaters on October 28. Watch the trailer below.