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| PVT Chat next screening 25 August 11:00 PM |
I was very curious about how the premise of this movie, "a film about the hyper-connectivity of contemporary life rooted in a verité New York City environment, PVT CHAT explores relationships and sex filtered through an online medium", would work as entertainment. Although the focus is on the evolving relationship between Jack (Peter Vack from 2017 Fantasia favourite ASSHOLES) and San-Francisco camgirl Scarlet (a magnetic Julia Fox) it reflects the claustrophobia and loneliness the COVID pandemic has forced us into. This makes the online relationship less odd since we have all been nurturing our relationships via the internet and social media. I was entertained in the same way Jack was by his voyeuristic obsession with Scarlet. The two actors bounce off each other successfully. It is not a deep movie or a cinematographic masterpiece but it is of its time.
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| Life: Untitled On Demand |
A Japanese movie that explores the daily lives of young people involved in the sex trade. We observe events through the eyes of Kano (Sairi Ito from LOVE & OTHER CULTS, ASAKO I & II and THE NAKED DIRECTOR) who can't give in to performing sex acts with strangers but accepts being an employee of the escort agency. What stood out to me was the ongoing archetypes that women are trapped into. There are all kinds of women who join the escort service: quiet intellectuals, victims of child abuse, stupid and vicious girls. They all suffer from the same thing, how they are repressed by the ongoing misogyny that taints sex in general and prostitution in particular.
The script comes from Kana Yamada who brilliantly weaves the excellent cast. On Demand
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| Morgana On Demand |
A classic journey of self-discovery by a mature woman who has been ignored by her husband and denied sex for many years. In spite of these years of loneliness and deprivation, Morgana Muses emerges as a porn star and filmmaker who gains recognition in the field winning accolades at Berlin Porn Film Festival for example. I was intrigued by the promotional image for the film where Morgana is wearing colorful ropes and feathers and looks quite alluring in spite of her age and weight. To me, Morgana is a performance artist. She expresses her inner states through elaborate imagery and performance. Isabel Peppard and Josie Hess form the directorial duo behind this visually colorful film. On Demand
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