Sadomasochism in Film
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flyonthewall2983
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Re: Sadomasochism in Film
My interest in both has taken a hit over the last year and a half.
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Rupert Pupkin
- Joined: Thu Oct 20, 2005 1:34 pm
Re: Sadomasochism in Film
A bit disappointed with "I Want Your Sex" - Gregg Araki said that it was a kind of variation around "the Secretary" (which I kind of like; this was the era of James Spader kinky characters). "Of course" the best of SM movie is Barbet Shroeder's "Maîtresse" which has its funny moments too.
This made me think of Baby Girl (which was more like The Secretary, and with some funny moments; but Nicole Kidman is a kind of goddess for me, so it was painful to watch since a botox-physical transformation (= implies : years)
Araki, like Almodovar didn't looser his trademark of colors or blackout scenes; so like Kaboom! you won't be lost.
Both actors are great (Daniel Stevens is excellent), great chemistry between the two, and obviously Olivia Wilde (who was in a bonus of the Criterion collection) is sexy as hell and great.
The thing is that it borrows Neil Labute's "The Shape Of Things" which was funny then frightening, then the end was "open" with a very troubling and sexy Rachel Weisz - Araki acknowledgde the idea of "film noir".
So, in the end, even if I had a very good time, something is lacking from Araki's first movies. I guess a lot of cineasts have to deal with it; but not all of them.
The best scene was IMHO (the funniest) the one with the threesome with the roommate.
James Duval (cameo) has a priest. Cool.
Sorry I didn't know if there was already a thread for this new movie : "I Want Your Sex".
Araki seems a bit lost after the post #metoo, pansexual, etc... we have entered in a dystopic world were "One Night Only" is almost "our" reality*, a recession romantic comedy which could be interpreted as "no sex without love" (it's cute, and I'm sure the cineast's intention was quite the opposite - and who couldn't fall in love with a sexy brunette like Monica Barbaro); it was new at the time of G.Araki's first movies; but it looks like he put his old tricks; I wanted something bold and more daring. But if the point was to make something funny, he won.
But that is one the funniest movie I have seen so far this summer.
Sorry I didn't know if there was already a thread for this new movie : "I Want Your Sex".
* it's a bit like when I wrote in "Afire" that the fire scenes weren't some "fantasy-reality" scenes; that became the reality in Europe; and at the time of the movie, it seems like this happened regularly - that's why they didn't leave the house- even though in the movie, there is a lot of mythology and daydreaming scene with Paula Peer; a kind of fantasy/La Collectioneuse
This made me think of Baby Girl (which was more like The Secretary, and with some funny moments; but Nicole Kidman is a kind of goddess for me, so it was painful to watch since a botox-physical transformation (= implies : years)
Araki, like Almodovar didn't looser his trademark of colors or blackout scenes; so like Kaboom! you won't be lost.
Both actors are great (Daniel Stevens is excellent), great chemistry between the two, and obviously Olivia Wilde (who was in a bonus of the Criterion collection) is sexy as hell and great.
The thing is that it borrows Neil Labute's "The Shape Of Things" which was funny then frightening, then the end was "open" with a very troubling and sexy Rachel Weisz - Araki acknowledgde the idea of "film noir".
So, in the end, even if I had a very good time, something is lacking from Araki's first movies. I guess a lot of cineasts have to deal with it; but not all of them.
The best scene was IMHO (the funniest) the one with the threesome with the roommate.
James Duval (cameo) has a priest. Cool.
Sorry I didn't know if there was already a thread for this new movie : "I Want Your Sex".
Araki seems a bit lost after the post #metoo, pansexual, etc... we have entered in a dystopic world were "One Night Only" is almost "our" reality*, a recession romantic comedy which could be interpreted as "no sex without love" (it's cute, and I'm sure the cineast's intention was quite the opposite - and who couldn't fall in love with a sexy brunette like Monica Barbaro); it was new at the time of G.Araki's first movies; but it looks like he put his old tricks; I wanted something bold and more daring. But if the point was to make something funny, he won.
But that is one the funniest movie I have seen so far this summer.
Sorry I didn't know if there was already a thread for this new movie : "I Want Your Sex".
* it's a bit like when I wrote in "Afire" that the fire scenes weren't some "fantasy-reality" scenes; that became the reality in Europe; and at the time of the movie, it seems like this happened regularly - that's why they didn't leave the house- even though in the movie, there is a lot of mythology and daydreaming scene with Paula Peer; a kind of fantasy/La Collectioneuse