Kissed (1996)
Country: CAN
Technical: col 78m
Director: Lynne Stopkewich
Cast: Molly Parker, Peter Outerbridge, Jay Brazeau
Synopsis:
A girl attracted to dead creatures and their 'radiance' takes a job as assistant at a funeral parlour, where she indulges her passion with the inert bodies of recently deceased (young) men.
Review:
Well okay, it's downright peculiar, but then films about necrophilia aren't two a penny and one ought to allow for all sorts and give credit for audacity. As was explored more accessibly in Secretary, the heroine's love life and emotional disorder - for want of a better word - (in her case nights of ecstasy at the undertakers') seem destined never to meet; so one half expects the grim solution that eventually comes. It is hard, though, to understand the limits to which her lover's own obsession with her is prepared to take him, and the film founders on its unreadiness to answer the questions he himself so burningly wants answered.
Country: CAN
Technical: col 78m
Director: Lynne Stopkewich
Cast: Molly Parker, Peter Outerbridge, Jay Brazeau
Synopsis:
A girl attracted to dead creatures and their 'radiance' takes a job as assistant at a funeral parlour, where she indulges her passion with the inert bodies of recently deceased (young) men.
Review:
Well okay, it's downright peculiar, but then films about necrophilia aren't two a penny and one ought to allow for all sorts and give credit for audacity. As was explored more accessibly in Secretary, the heroine's love life and emotional disorder - for want of a better word - (in her case nights of ecstasy at the undertakers') seem destined never to meet; so one half expects the grim solution that eventually comes. It is hard, though, to understand the limits to which her lover's own obsession with her is prepared to take him, and the film founders on its unreadiness to answer the questions he himself so burningly wants answered.
Country: CAN
Technical: col 78m
Director: Lynne Stopkewich
Cast: Molly Parker, Peter Outerbridge, Jay Brazeau
Synopsis:
A girl attracted to dead creatures and their 'radiance' takes a job as assistant at a funeral parlour, where she indulges her passion with the inert bodies of recently deceased (young) men.
Review:
Well okay, it's downright peculiar, but then films about necrophilia aren't two a penny and one ought to allow for all sorts and give credit for audacity. As was explored more accessibly in Secretary, the heroine's love life and emotional disorder - for want of a better word - (in her case nights of ecstasy at the undertakers') seem destined never to meet; so one half expects the grim solution that eventually comes. It is hard, though, to understand the limits to which her lover's own obsession with her is prepared to take him, and the film founders on its unreadiness to answer the questions he himself so burningly wants answered.