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That the movie’s frank depiction of sex and sexuality tipped it into NC-17 territory led to outrage from the film community, most notably from film critic Roger Ebert. This time it’s for “Passages,” the acclaimed romance drama from Ira Sachs that earned strong reviews out of the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year.
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Francis Lee’s 2020 romantic drama, Ammonite spends a couple of hours with fossil collector Mary Anning ( Kate Winslet) as she forms a bond with Charlotte Murchison (Saoirse Ronan) after the young woman is left in her care. Arriving on a wave of high anticipation, hype and bag-headed public appearances, the first “volume” of Lars Von Trier’s two-part, five-hour magnum opus Nymphomaniac will start rolling into theaters on March 21st. Miramax argued that an X rating was censorship, especially compared to R-rated films that showed explicit drug use and/or violence.Jury president Francis Ford Coppola later said that some jurors “abstained very passionately” to the decision to award “Crash” a special jury prize. For some of us, that could mean sticking with our streaming services in spite of frustrations like rising costs, but for others, it means that when they want to wind down, they might want to do it with, you know…a movie that’s a bit saucier than average.
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It is a perfect illustration of the need for a workable adult rating: too mature, thoughtful and frank for the R, but not in any sense pornographic. Waters said in the MPA documentary “This Film Is Not Yet Rated” that the film ratings board “stopped taking notes” on the film when it realized there was no amount of cuts that could reduce it down to an R-rating.
Over time, the artist and aristocrat become secret lovers, which results in moments of forbidden passion and steamy sex scenes involving the two leads. What's radical and refreshing about the film is how commonplace, or even unremarkable, male nudity and gay sex are allowed to be.
