A shop clerk fixates on a TV news reader while constructing a machine to masturbate himself, the newsreader has her own sexual fantasy involving a large carp, another woman makes dough balls, which she grotesquely ingests before bed, need we go on? A strange and cerebral outing for those that really should get out more, did we say out, perhaps stay in would be a better idea. This said there is plenty of material here to discuss with friends and psychiatrists. Oh, did I mention the voodoo-chicken
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CRASH (CRONENBERG) (1998)
Certification18 Our Rating
David Cronenberg puts the human psyche under the microscope here, with the central characters seemingly hypnotised by their own dark compulsions. James and Catherine have an open relationship, proudly regaling each other with the ice-cold details of their latest extra-marital exploits, but a head-on crash involving Holly Hunter provides the catalyst for James's erotic obsession with auto accidents and, after hooking up with Vaughan, who re-stages celebrity car crashes, and his lover, who wears l
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EXOTICA (1994)
Certification18 Our Rating
The 'Exotica' is a seedy strip joint in the outskirts of Toronto, where Eric, DJ and MC, watches nightly as his ex-girlfriend Christina performs a provocative schoolgirl routine. Regular customer Francis garners favours, Thomas goes through a series of interesting situations involving his pet shop, a gruff taxi-sharing stranger, unexpected tickets to the opera and smuggled eggs of a rare bird...... multiple story lines unfold in a splendid tangle of cutbacks, forward and backward references and
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THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY (2014)
Certification18 Our Rating
In an unnamed European town, in an unspecified era, live Cynthia and Evelyn. Every day Evelyn cycles to Cynthia’s chateau to work as a lowly maid and every day the cruel, vindictive Cynthia inflicts countless sad
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THE NIGHT PORTER (1973)
Certification18 Our Rating
An ex-SS officer, now a hotel porter, meets by chance a young woman who was previously his prisoner in a concentration camp. Unwillingly drawn together again they resume their sado-masochistic relationship. A compelling, though morally ambiguous, study in dominance and submission.
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