An academic friend put me onto this film about thirty years ago and I subsequently bought a DVD directly from the producer and entered into correspondence with him. Just now I have watched it again, for the first time since I bought it.
In a world which has become immeasurably uglier, its essential beauty is even more heartbreaking that when it was produced. One of the actors comments on how pornography always makes the male dominant -- sex is an aggressive attack. There is such affection and consideration in this film's love-making -- from my own experience, I know that it's real. Sex isn't combat, it's chamber music!
In a world which has become immeasurably uglier, its essential beauty is even more heartbreaking that when it was produced. One of the actors comments on how pornography always makes the male dominant -- sex is an aggressive attack. There is such affection and consideration in this film's love-making -- from my own experience, I know that it's real. Sex isn't combat, it's chamber music!