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In London, England, love blooms between an American college student,
named Lisa, and a British glaciologist, named Matt, where over the next
few months in between attending rock concerts, the two lovers have
intense sexual encounters.
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Writer: Michael Winterbottom
Stars: Kieran O'Brien, Margo Stilley, The Dandy Warhols |
Storyline :
Matt, a young glaciologist, soars across the vast, silent, icebound immensities of the South Pole as he recalls his love affair with Lisa. They meet at a mobbed rock concert in a vast music hall--London's Brixton Academy. They are in bed at night's end. Together, over a period of several months, they pursue a mutual sexual passion whose inevitable stages unfold in counterpoint to nine live-concert songs.
Movie Reviews :
An anti-climax
In the (admittedly
unlikely) eventuality that someone wandered into a cinema expecting this
to be a musical, a rude shock would ensue, since this is the most
sexually explicit mainstream film ever exhibited in Britain. Indeed the
only mainstream movie I've previously seen to compare in explicitness
was the 1976 Japanese work "Ai No Corrida" ("In the Realm Of The
Senses"), but this work goes further with a scene of ejaculation, as
well as fellatio, cunnilingus and penetrative sex. Since this is the
work of accomplished British director Michael Winterbottom ("In This
World"), one cannot possibly regard this is as pornography - besides
anything else, porn features far more voluptuous women and portrays the
sex from an exclusively male point of view, whereas the sex here is
realistic (as well as real) and as female-oriented as much as male.
The problem is that the film appears to be utterly meaningless. A British research geologist Matt (Kieran O'Brien) goes to London gigs and has sex with American student Lisa (Margot Stilley), but there is no characterisation or plot or even a script (the dialogue was improvised and is banal). Even the music seems to bear no relationship to the lovers and - except for some haunting work from Michael Nyman - is dreary gunge. Shot on low budget digital video, the picture is as grey as the subject matter and the only light-hearted aspect is the rather unsubtle joke of the (mercifully short) running time (69 minutes). Come again? No chance.
The problem is that the film appears to be utterly meaningless. A British research geologist Matt (Kieran O'Brien) goes to London gigs and has sex with American student Lisa (Margot Stilley), but there is no characterisation or plot or even a script (the dialogue was improvised and is banal). Even the music seems to bear no relationship to the lovers and - except for some haunting work from Michael Nyman - is dreary gunge. Shot on low budget digital video, the picture is as grey as the subject matter and the only light-hearted aspect is the rather unsubtle joke of the (mercifully short) running time (69 minutes). Come again? No chance.
