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6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Film ThreatPhil HallFilm ThreatPhil HallThe results are either darkly comic and tragic, depending on the viewer's mindframe. But McElhinney's route to these results, as with the Bertolucci, is nothing short of stunning.
- 70The New York TimesDave KehrThe New York TimesDave KehrIt is a strange, beautiful, disturbing and at times literally painful work, an original and distinctive expression by a gifted young Philadelphia-based filmmaker who here confirms the talent he displayed in his 2001 film, "A Chronicle of Corpses."
- 60VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyEvaluating this project in conventional feature terms is a lost cause; relevant contexts are purely avant-garde and pornographic. Suffice it to say that helmer's careful attention to framing camera, music and content signal primary allegiance to Art rather than Smut.
- 40TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghThe less time you've devoted to thinking about the nature and uses of the erotic imagination, the more challenging this will seem.
- 25Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittChristian Science MonitorDavid SterrittBataille was a serious philosopher as well as a sensation-seeking writer, but you'd never guess his provocative ideas from this updated version.
- 20Village VoiceVillage VoiceThis skin-deep flick is merely art-school sophomoric, unwittingly cornball, and counterrevolutionary.