Film Festival 09 - Love Exposure
Love Exposure
Ai no mukidashi, Japan 2008, 237m
Director: Sono Sion
Festivals: Berlin 2009
A dazzling, demented epic filled beyond bursting point with
Catholic guilt, kick-ass kungfu schoolgirls, a loony cult led by a
teenage girl with a green budgie - and what has to be the most
upskirt panty shots in history. Of course Incredibly Strange
couldn't resist. Yu is the traumatised son of a widower turned
Catholic priest who admonishes his son to confess so many sins that
the 17-year-old takes up new ones to gratify his father's religious
zeal. His sin of surreptitiously photographing up the skirts of
unsuspecting women turns out to be a profitable sideline, but his
deal with a porn company comes undone when he falls in love with
the feisty Yoko. "Religion, family and sexual mores are satirically
skewered and slowly roasted& Evoking an unhinged Ken Russell on
a sushi binge, director Sion Sono confirms his reputation for
excess (Suicide Club) with this delirious, hypnotic, four-hour
marathon." - Russell Edwards, Variety
In Japanese with English subtitles
