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Cold Showers
France, 2005, 103 min.
Working class teen Mickael's two big passions are judo and his curvy girlfriend Vanessa with whom he enjoys an athletic sex life. But when the couple meet judo team newcomer Clément a ménage a trois develops. An erotic and complex love story between three adolescents from different social background... more
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Fuego
Argentina, 1969, 91 min.
John Waters' latest project is a new series for television called "John Waters presents Films That Will Corrupt You." In Fuego he's struck gold! Argentinian auteur Armando Bo has crafted a film so sublimely outrageous it rivals anything in Waters' oeuvre! John Waters will be on hand to introd... more
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Kamataki
Canada, 2005, 111 min.
Claude Gagnon's deceptively simple story about a young, depressed Canadian who is sent to visit his uncle in Japan, is sublimely riveting, complex and erotic. The uncle is a master potter, and the depiction of the Kamataki process of marathon firing is exhilarating! Best Director, Montreal Film Fest... more
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The Notorious Bettie Page
USA, 2005, 101 min.
Gretchen Mol turns in a dazzling performance -- exuberant, innocent and sexy, all at the same time -- as 1950s pin-up icon Bettie Page, the dark-haired beauty who ended up posing in the nude with a whip, in Mary Harron's (I Shot Andy Warhol) gorgeously rendered black-and-white biopic. Intelli... more
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Odete
Portugal, 2005, 102 min.
This highly eccentric, gender-bending melodrama tells the story of a supermarket worker who becomes obsessed with becoming impregnated by a deceased gay man, much to the displeasure of the corpse's grieving lover. Shot with a dreamy romanticism and "Moon River" like you've never heard it before.... more
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Sangre
Mexico, 2005, 91 min.
After work, Diego and Blanca lie down on their couch and watch "télé novellas" or make love on the kitchen table. This minimalist and astounding first feature, presented at Cannes in Un Certain Regard, draws a rather disturbing portrait of unglamorous conjugal rutting, complete with full-frontal nud... more
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That Man: Peter Berlin
USA, 2005, 81 min.
An engrossing look at photographer/exhibitionist/Tom of Finland subject/San Francisco fixture Peter Berlin, who is described as a living cartoon and "The Garbo of male porn stars." Interviews with Armistead Maupin and a flabbergasted John Waters round out this tragicomic glimpse of a true original.... more
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To Paint or Make Love
France, 2005, 99 min.
Set in the Alps, staring two giants of the French cinema, this delightfully ironic film takes an ordinary retired couple and dares to confront them with questions about love, desire, sex and art. Both transgressive and innocent, erotic and gentle, it's a funny and beautiful mixture of fantasy and re... more
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The Wayward Cloud
Taiwan, 2005, 113 min.
Taiwanese bad boy Tsai Ming-liang has come up with one of his most provocative films yet, a naughty, transgressive and thoroughly non-traditional drama-with musical numbers! Taipei is in the throes of a serious drought. Against this backdrop Tsai's favourite collaborator Lee Kang-sheng tries to get ... more
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A Year Without Love
Argentina, 2005, 101 min.
An audacious film that dares to place its HIV+ protagonist in the S&M leather scene of Buenos Aires, in defiance of his deteriorating health. He continues to cruise the city where his encounters reveal an ambitious, gifted man forced to come to terms with his mortality.... more
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