Anti-Porno

Sono sometimes, including here (and in the celebrated LOVE EXPOSURE), pushes the hysteria to a level difficult to cope with, but, as it unfolds the variations on its themes and the repetitions of its monologues, this example succeeds in generating a certain amount of power and indeed rage against the poles of shame and shamelessness that seem to define the contours of female sexuality in Japan. Contains some remarkable imagery, interspersed with a familiar set of classical music favourites.

Not just an arthouse ironic porn, but alto a film-within-a-film ironic porn, which is even worse. Looks beautiful -- all in red and yellow, mostly, with the leading girl smashing her head on a birthday cake and bathing in multiple colors -- but seems severely distant emotionally and incredibly annoying -- despite some potentially good insights about Japanese hypocrisy torwards women's freedom.

as one might expect, sono enters the roman porno reboot project with a hilariously unsubtle and obnoxious fuck you to the roman porno reboot project. the final provocation makes the end of KATE PLAYS CHRISTINE look like ozu. even the (intentionally) bad sono films are a pleasure for his vivid eye and defiant, shameless sensibility.

Can't say I understood anything, but it had some spectacularly beautiful costumes/decor and a nice way with alternate realities and shattering expectations.

Excessive & unconventional film in film style where space & time mix up in order to create an unconscious odyssey of an adolescent girl's sexual and societal liberation. Sono tries to let the colorful imagination of the protagonist free in order to create an alternative world where she is labeled either a whore or a virgin, between porn and family respectably. The major weakness was that it makes its characters express its philosophy explicitly, diminishing the effect of aesthetic experience.