I'm annoyed with the director of this picture for his apparently 'holier than thou' attitude. It does not make a great film if people walk out of it - they're likely to be walking out of it for real reasons, other than those of insult. I left after forty minutes, so will be restrained here since I can't offer a fair review. However, the sex scenes I did see were fairly tame, so I will assume they get more explicit. What made me leave was something that made me dislike another 'shocking' film - 'Baisse Moi' (Virginie Despentes, 2000) - the deliberate use of a controversial subject to grab and hold your attention. Like the directorial style of the film as I experienced it, I find that to be wholly crass and a disappointing waste of the opportunities the cinema offers over other media: turning up the emotions, soundtrack, and editing contrast to 11 is not enough to hold together a film, and it quickly became (for me) a badly conceived mish mash that was too interested in itself than the audience for it to work.
There is potentially a very strong film in there, but I really struggled to find it through a very limited directorial style.
I recommend you see it, and that you double-bluff the director by not being sidelined by a smattering of sex and sado-masichism.
There is potentially a very strong film in there, but I really struggled to find it through a very limited directorial style.
I recommend you see it, and that you double-bluff the director by not being sidelined by a smattering of sex and sado-masichism.