The Loss of Sexual Innocence
First screened in March 2020
Director: Mike Figgis. Cast: Saffron Burrows, Julian Sands, Hanne Klintoe, Femi Ogunbanjo, Kelly Macdonald, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Gina McKee, Bernard Hill, Johanna Torell, Stefano Dionisi, John Cowey, Nina McKay, Dickson Osa-Omorogbe, Geriant Ellis, Justin Chadwick, Rossy de Palma. Screenplay: Mike Figgis.

Twitter Capsule: Early hopes for something formally or thematically interesting quickly crater. Ever more embarrassing.

VOR:   Certainly not commonplace. I appreciate Figgis's appetite for risk. But the generally ponderous result is rife with clichés, stereotypes, and dead ends.



Photo © 1999 Sony Pictures Classics/Summit
Entertainment/Newmarket Capital Group

Not yet reviewed in full. Grade: D


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