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List Price: $14.98 Our Price: $12.99 You Save: $1.99 Features • Closed-captioned • Color • DVD-Video • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 11 April, 1997 DVD Release : 23 August, 2005 |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Strangely Poetic |
| In most movies, necrophilia is either hinted about ('American Gothic') or used as a joke ('Dodgeball'). You rarely, if ever, see it portrayed onscreen. "Kissed" does just that. Instead of making the character a sick perverted person, the filmmakers actually present you with a character you come to like. This character is Sandra, played by Molly Parker (HBO's "Deadwood"). As a child, Sandra develops a fascination with death that continues into adulthood. Once she gets a job at a funeral parlor and becomes an apprentice embalmer, she begins having sex with the cadavers. She doesn't do it to fulfill some kind of sick desire, but does it because it becomes a need. An experience she can't live without or explain. Then Sandra meets Matt (Peter Outerbridge), a person who indetifies with Sandra and shows no emotion when she reveals her secret to him. Instead, he becomes fascinated with the subject as well which leads to the final scene in the movie. The movie is haunting, but not disgusting or exploitive. No one who sees this movie should feel sickened by what Sandra is doing. It's not that what she's doing isn't disgusting, it's that the filmmakers don't make it look disgusting. Some of the reviews on the DVD proclaim the film to be poetic and provocative. It's both, but definitely the former. It's told very poetically, which is helped by Parker's voice-overs. Having only seen Molly Parker in "Deadwood" I'm impressed by how strong an actress she is. A lot of lesser actresses could've taken the dialogue and actions that occur in the film and made it campy. Parker nails everything dead-on (no pun intended...I'm serious, that was an accident). General audiences won't find this movie enjoyable; It's slow-moving and it's subject matter will most definitely steer people away. It's no masterpiece, but this is a movie that comes out of nowhere and hits you pretty hard.
GRADE: B+ |
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