Sacred Flesh (1999)
Country: GB
Technical: col 72m
Director: Nigel Wingrove
Cast: Sally Tremaine, Moyna Cope, Simon Hill, Kristina Bill
Synopsis:
Nuns at a convent are disturbed by the ravings of their Mother Superior, who has been driven to a state of latent sexual arousal by their confessions and believes she is being tempted by a meretricious Mary Magdalene and her demons.
Review:
Fatuously pretentious soft porn, whose credentials are betrayed by sisters sporting not only facial makeup but navel piercings and carefully depilated pudenda, and whose attempt at period prose at times gets tied up in its own syntax. The absurdly worldly abbot is a mere distraction, his philandering servant still more so; the rest of the film resolves itself into four sexual tableaux of increasing complexity, interspersed with polemical debates about the nature of sexuality between the Mother Superior and her antagonist. The style is that of high video art, something akin to Ken Russell in fact.
Country: GB
Technical: col 72m
Director: Nigel Wingrove
Cast: Sally Tremaine, Moyna Cope, Simon Hill, Kristina Bill
Synopsis:
Nuns at a convent are disturbed by the ravings of their Mother Superior, who has been driven to a state of latent sexual arousal by their confessions and believes she is being tempted by a meretricious Mary Magdalene and her demons.
Review:
Fatuously pretentious soft porn, whose credentials are betrayed by sisters sporting not only facial makeup but navel piercings and carefully depilated pudenda, and whose attempt at period prose at times gets tied up in its own syntax. The absurdly worldly abbot is a mere distraction, his philandering servant still more so; the rest of the film resolves itself into four sexual tableaux of increasing complexity, interspersed with polemical debates about the nature of sexuality between the Mother Superior and her antagonist. The style is that of high video art, something akin to Ken Russell in fact.
Country: GB
Technical: col 72m
Director: Nigel Wingrove
Cast: Sally Tremaine, Moyna Cope, Simon Hill, Kristina Bill
Synopsis:
Nuns at a convent are disturbed by the ravings of their Mother Superior, who has been driven to a state of latent sexual arousal by their confessions and believes she is being tempted by a meretricious Mary Magdalene and her demons.
Review:
Fatuously pretentious soft porn, whose credentials are betrayed by sisters sporting not only facial makeup but navel piercings and carefully depilated pudenda, and whose attempt at period prose at times gets tied up in its own syntax. The absurdly worldly abbot is a mere distraction, his philandering servant still more so; the rest of the film resolves itself into four sexual tableaux of increasing complexity, interspersed with polemical debates about the nature of sexuality between the Mother Superior and her antagonist. The style is that of high video art, something akin to Ken Russell in fact.