His last film, Listen Up Philip, was indebted to the fiction as well as the persona of Philip Roth. His newest movie, Queen of Earth, having its world premiere in the Forum section in Berlin, recalls several movies about the intense, tormented relationship of two women friends. Probably Perry needs to shed some of these influences to become a truly first-rate filmmaker. Philip got excellent reviews but made no headway at the box office. Queen seems destined for the same commercial oblivion, but it is in some ways more intriguing than the overrated Philip.