![]() ![]() It uses sex as a medium, as a delivery system for ideas and characters and emotions, just like ‘Hedwig ’ uses music. Mitchell continued, “‘Shortbus’ isn’t about sex. And so I said, ‘I never want you to do anything you don’t want to do, but I do want you to challenge yourselves so we can challenge the audience.’” Mitchell told IndieWire about filming the cult classic, “Certainly, a lot of films had used sex, but they were pretty grim, and I wanted something more fun and funny, but still emotionally deep. John Cameron Mitchell set out to “honor” sex as a pastime for real people, much like art, music, or cuisine, in his second feature film, 2006’s “Shortbus.” “This prostitution is not profane it’s a sacred act that we give them.” “Actors are prostitutes because they’re asked to play other feelings,” Breillat told IndieWire. for more than two decades.) Breillat’s later work, 1999’s “Romance,” tells the story of a woman desperately seeking human connection and featured similar scenes, including sadomasochistic sex play. (The lead actress Charlotte Alexandra was 20 during production, and the film wasn’t released in theaters in the U.S. I wonder if the same would work had it been a male lead, and of course an immediate reminiscence was Qaushiq Mukherjee's Gandu.Sex on film is nothing new, and yet unsimulated intercourse in non-pornographic movies continues to raise eyebrows and draw eyeballs.įrom Vincent Gallo’s controversial directing for “Brown Bunny” to Robert Pattinson’s masturbatory method acting in”Little Ashes,” genuine intimate encounters captured on film - however staged they may be - can pull audiences into the bigger stories their writers and directors are trying to tell.Ĭatherine Breillat’s first film in 1976, “A Real Young Girl,” adapts her own controversial novel about a 14-year-old exploring her newfound sexuality. This movie does a decent or rather an indecent job of blending the aversion with a story of someone who aches for some love. As evident from the trailers this was marketed as a over the top raunchy comedy but if you overlook all those gross and perverse segments (which is hard I know), there is a sensibly written story about the perils a late- adolescent girl goes though be it physical or emotional. I wouldn't suggest Wetlands for the faint of heart/stomach or the more perverse either. I for one consider myself hardened, watching movies like A Serbian Film, The Human Centipede, Martyrs, Inside, Hostel or even Salo but there were scenes in Wetlands that truly deserved to be called cringe worthy. Right from the CG titles, her narration reminded me sorely of David Fincher's Fight Club. Her performance was inexplicably good, shuffling from cute and sexy to crude and repelling seemed like an easy feat for her. Beneath the layers of her weird habits and unimaginable sexual fantasies, lies the conflict with herself and an intense yearning for her parents' reconciliation. While light at heart, the seemingly damaged 18 year old as Helen may seem it also brings out how bad she needed to be loved. Its kind of a parallel she draws with how she feels for her parents and their divorce. Helen played charmingly by Carla Juri, is on an experiment with her own genitals and whatnot as she initially states in the movie. Wetlands follows the sexual and unhygienic adventures of Helen Memel, a girl who is hellbent on making her life as unhygienic as possible and labeling it as her 'experiments'. Greeted initially with a splendid shot of a skater girl, it quickly goes downhill before you can say "ugh". ![]() ![]() Nothing will prepare you for Wetlands' odd 105 minutes. On the other hand if you thought this'd be a usual sex- comedy with some gross factor, believe me when I tell ya what you saw in the preview is nothing compared to the movie. If you've seen its red band previews, you can figure out instantly whether the movie is for you or not. Well if one's given the liberty to express what they'd seen or rather witnessed in a plethora of words, it'd most likely be something close to obscene, disgusting, repulsive and most of all shocking. There is nothing that could concise David Wnendt's Feuchtgebiete aka Wetlands in a single word. ![]()
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