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l_harper
Reviews
One Night Stand (2006)
excellent. to be recommended. all lesbotransfif style.
not exactly a porn, because there is a discourse about sexuality in the opening. but the rest is Hardcore. be warned!
I have to say, watching this skin slick on a giant screen with 150 of your nearest and dearest, um, friends you haven't met yet... is a jaw-dropping experience. I wanted to enjoy this film through and through but it's hard when you're afraid to let go. A public screening is great for shock value and for society's opening of mind, but it should be totally enjoyed at home with a lover, a stranger or an object. One thing i want to commend Jouvet on, is her use of a) all lesbian or trans F-to-Ms to create some steamy porn that shows the world what lesbotrans folk do in the bedroom. the question is getting boring, as i'm sure most people know. Also, in my point b), i want to mention how nice it is that we are talking about sex in the public. We have to realize why these films are making us quiver with trepidation or burn in embarrassment. What are we afraid to see? Even if i closed my eyes, i could hear a delicious soundtrack consisting of wet lapping sounds. Why do seeing this stuff live make me a little nervous? I'm glad Jouvet forces us to pose ourselves the question. Jouvet and Foucault must be in conspiracy.
Anatomie de l'enfer (2004)
Breillat points out the unwatchable
To be Breillat is to be brave. The filmmakers employs techniques similar to male filmmakers in porn, but by doing so from her own female perspective, challenges such notions as bad/ good, gay/straight, clean/dirty, etc.
A suicidal woman propositions a gay man to be with her as she goes through her monthly bleeding, and exposes her body to him in an ashamed manner. The gay man soon learns much from this woman and his view of woman turns from hatred and disgust, to fear and astonishment. One could argue that he never truly hated her, since the very first scene involves him saving the woman from her own hands. When the man leaves, a very telling conversation is filmed between him and a male companion at a tavern. This is part of the enigma that Breillat has wanted to show us with Anatomy of Hell.
WHile there are scenes that are perturbing (close-ups on female anatomy, graphic sexual sodomy and depictions of menstruation) there is also great scenes of France's coastal region at night, and a raging ocean alongside rocky cliffs. There is an aesthetic that may perturb some viewers, but these tensions are merely calculated by a brilliant filmmaker wishing to comment on the reason for sexual and social difference among men and women.