FountainPen
Avoid this "film" ~ it is a cheap, badly made excuse for "soft-porn". Avoid this "film" ~ it is a cheap, badly made excuse for "soft-porn". Avoid this "film" ~ it is a cheap, badly made excuse for "soft-porn". Avoid this "film" ~ it is a cheap, badly made excuse for "soft-porn". Avoid this "film" ~ it is a cheap, badly made excuse for "soft-porn". Avoid this "film" ~ it is a cheap, badly made excuse for "soft-porn". Avoid this "film" ~ it is a cheap, badly made excuse for "soft-porn". Avoid this "film" ~ it is a cheap, badly made excuse for "soft-porn". Avoid this "film" ~ it is a cheap, badly made excuse for "soft-porn". The music is awful, too ! Sleep, read a book, learn a language, but don't waste your time with this.
mike-613-161182
Clearly most people see this film the wrong way round. Focusing on the sex is not the point at all. It really is a pretty good reflection of what many people's humdrum lives are really like, But they come alive at the gigs all of which (apart from Michael Nyman perhaps) are buzzing with electricity, and also offer a great introduction to a few bands that you might not otherwise have bothered with.I have, you have, we all (?) have been there in the flat, infatuated with an alluring woman/man and had some great sex amongst otherwise dull lives. The sex is the counterpoint to the music - Matt really only remembers the great sex and the great music that punctuated their year together. And at the end of the film, she leaves and Matt is yet to fully move on, and life seems as bleak as the Antartic.The point about the quality of the sex is that it doesn't all have to be porn star sex to be great - just being really close to the person you love can be enough to elevate it to the highest plains.
videorama-759-859391
I do love this movie. When seeing it again in 2008, after a three year absence, I loved it more, so much, I watched it again, as having bought the DVD, while I was in Sydney. It was taken off the shelves in Adelaide, within about two weeks. Yes the film is very daring, and explicit, and sexy Stilley, a former model, is hot as an American student. Her acting's not. It's more done, if for naturalism. You would of seen her in that M and M's add in a green sweater, where here, she's naked for most of it. The English boyfriend, who's interesting occupation, takes him to the Antarctic, he loves so much, was a job angle I loved. Original. Stilley has struck up a hot relationship with him, where Kieren O'Brien is incredibly dull to watch, though likable, delivering an utterly terrible performance almost of void, but again too, it's done for naturalism, which is the feel I've got from the film. I don't know if these actors hailed from the same acting school as the leads from Open Water. This adult feature, that does border on porn, one scene, that pushed the envelope, which I imagine, was removed from the shelves, after a complaint, is really a love story strung together by an abundance of sex scenes, one after the other that involves a lot of lovemaking, where a beautiful thing is going on there, punctuated by rock concert scenes, featuring songs and music I loved. There's one small argument, that Stilley, with her character of vitality and looseness sparks up, which I wish had eventuated into more. At times her character is obnoxious. She does have her moods. Thank god we have her, to bring life into the relationship, in contrast to the distrait O'Brien. It does pain and sadden us, when the two part, at the end, after all the sex and love they've been through, where it is affecting, a too fitting titled, if punishing song attached to it. In fairness the 69 minute movie has the look of a half finished project, or it is, as if the other half of the movie went missing, where they're are only a couple of things that hold it together, but their things the audience love, that compensates for the notion, that may'be it's not really meant to be taken for a movie, but a very explicit and sexy experience, where those easily offended by raw sex, nudity, should steer clear. Dialogue too is scarce, of minimum number, one line has Stilley looking in the mirror, asking O'Brien, "Do I look like a boy". Check out her bare body, while she says that, you'll pick up on something that will have you answering "Yes", but I don't want to get too personal. Definitely for art house lovers, or people, who want to get their rocks off.
