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Directed by John Cameron Mitchell | 101 minutes | R 18+ | 20th Anniversary |
8:30pm Sunday, 17 May | Balam Balam Place - Cinema 1 | Buy Tickets | Buy Passes
John Cameron Mitchell's iconic, pulsating explosion of identity, gender and unsimulated sex in glorious 4K—still breaking ground and pushing boundaries 20 years on...
Various New York City characters navigate the comic/tragic intersections between sex and love, in and around the titular modern-day polysexual underground salon. One of our tales follows Sofia (Sook-Yin Lee), a sex therapist who has never had an orgasm, and meets Severin (Lindsay Beamish), a female dominatrix who tries to help her.
The entire film is sexually explicit and provocative: depicting surprising and impressive sex acts right as the film opens. But your heart will be teased right along with other organs, as director John Cameron Mitchell focuses deeply on his characters' emancipation of identitity and paths to self discovery. It's a unique nexus of art, music, politics and sex, suggesting new strategies for reconciling the unique pressures of post-9/11 NYC.
SIMILAR: Nymphomaniac Vol. 1/2, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Secretary, Belle de Jour, Castration Movie, Gregg Araki
"Few arthouse directors have put real sex to such narratively constructive and credibly, humorously human use." - Ben Walters, Time Out
"something quite magical and moving—and healing—is taking place, for real, right before your eyes" - Jim Emerson, RogerEbert.com
CONTENT WARNING: Unsimulated sex
Country: United States
Year: 2006
Language: English