A sergeant-major finds himself threatened by the heroism of an attractive new recruit and, fuelled by resentment, envy and hate, becomes obsessed with plotting the young man's downfall. Though little is spelt out explicitly in this tale of repressed emotion leading to murderous jealousy, the film is accessible and clear throughout. The director's concerns are with how a wide open colonial outpost may become a prison, how men cope with an all-male society and how the physical can mirror the metap
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EDWARD THE SECOND (1991)
Certification18 Our Rating
A superb screen modern dress adaptation of Marlowe's classic story of forbidden love and naked ambition. After King Edward bestows titles on a shifty commoner, his embittered and neglected wife conspires with an ambitious courtier to provoke a bloody civil war. Jarman is in top anti-Establishment form.
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LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN (1989)
Certification18 Our Rating
Brooklyn 1952; Tralala is a tart, Vinnie is her brutal pimp, Georgina and Regina are transvestites on the make and Harry is a corrupt union official. These are just a few of the gallery of characters in this extremely stylish, if violent, look at urban demi-mondes.
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LOVE IS STRANGE (2013)
Certification15 Our Rating
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NAKED LUNCH (1992)
Certification18 Our Rating
Combining the talents of Cronenberg and Burroughs was bound to produce weird results, and weird they surely are. Themes such as drugs and homosexuality are all explored as bug-killer powder addict Lee withdraws into his malformed psyche. With veins like yours kid!!!
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SALO, O LE 120 GIORANATE DI SODOMA (1975)
Certification18 Our Rating
Based on the Marquis de Sade's novel, 120 days of Sodom, and transposed to Fascist Italy circa 1944, this is Pasolini's most controversial work. Pasolini observes with unflinching gaze the systematic humiliation and torture of beautiful young boys and girls, herded into a palatial villa by various jaded, sadistic members of the wealthy upper classes. According to the director, the story was meant to be a metaphor for Fascism, but the revolting excesses shown on screen coupled with the fact that
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