SCREENING FRIDAY 9TH SEPT 9:45PM (MAIN CINEMA)
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GUILTY OF ROMANCE
Sion Sono | 2011 / JAPAN / 112 mins
Japan’s prince of transgressive cinema, Sion Sono brings us an erotic, psychosexual tale of sex, money and murder.
Unsatisfied housewife Izumi, Professor of Literature Mitsuko, and police detective Kazuko offset the banality of their everyday lives with secret and not-so-secret sexual misadventures. Empowerment and misanthropy go hand-in-hand as the explicit details of their affairs are brought to the surface, and a gruesome murder will link their fates.
With this risqué, noir-esque film, director Sion Sono (Love Exposure, Cold Fish) presents a story based on a true-life crime, offering his trademark view on the darker side of society.Told through the looking glass of sex, words, madness, death and family, the film bombards the audience with graphic images and assaults the emotions with classical music – this is a movie that provokes all your senses!
“A twisted fusion of sex and death…will surely shock” – Twitchfilm
“Transgressive erotic thriller will be pure saké for Sion Sono’s cult following” – Hollywood Reporter
“Kafkaesque storytelling… a Guilty pleasure” – Variety
