Sex Tape
Sex Tape: A Blend of Comedy, Chaos, and Behind the Screen Facts When ‘Sex Tape’ came out in 2014, it promised light-hearted comedy, explicit jokes, and the reunion of Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel after the successful ‘Bad Teacher.’ The trailers promised something out of the box — a married couple in the suburbs losing […]
Come Undone
Come Undone: When Desire Meets Real Life Shadows Some films don’t require extravagant sets or multi-million dollar advertising campaigns to secure their place in the memories of cinema. Come Undone, or Cosa Voglio di Più, a film by Silvio Soldini, is one of such films. Though it’s an intimate drama which first made its way […]
9½ Weeks
9½ Weeks: When Sexuality went Beyond the Cinema Adrian Lyne’s 9½ Weeks is 1986’s addition to the Theatrical world. It came in with a bang. It was alluring, it was controversial. While a certain section of the audience watched it as a movie with a deep story, a lot of this audience divided the movie […]
Dirty Games
When Influence Fiction Fiction Spill into Real Lives Some films are remembered for captivating plots. Others linger in the consciousness because of what was done to the people making the films. Dirty Games firmly belongs in the second category. Something that started as an exploration of lust and ambition was a gritty betrayal that redefined […]
Secretary
Secretary: A Love Story Wrapped in Restraints When Secretary premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2002, it immediately stirred curiosity and nervous laughter. A romance between a boss and his secretary was hardly new, but this was no typical office affair. Steven Shainberg’s film dove into themes of dominance, submission, shame, and acceptance — […]
Lust, Caution
Lust, Caution: Desire, Betrayal, And The Burden Of Performance During the period of its release, the world of cinema anticipated scandals after watching the trailer for the movie Lust, Caution, which depicted some confidential issues, love, and infidelity filled with controversial speculations concerning the plot. Despite the movie’s very few emotional elements, the trailer seemed […]
The Lover
The Lover: Desire, Cinema, and the Weight of Expectation As early as the 1990s, the French Cineastes enthusiasticlly awaited Jean-Jacques Annaud’s take on the thema of ‘The Lover.’ The book on which the film is based is a controversial piece of work by the accomplished author Marguerite Duras, and as a work of creative exploration, […]
Hotel Desire
Desire Hotel captivates and intrigues and so does its director Sergej Moys, not conforming much to the stereotypical European dramatics. It is clear that focus will be on the character ‘Antonia’, and the big gulf that disengages her and the artist is the blinding reality that permeates their the story, which is Episodes Of the […]
In the Realm of the Senses
In the Realm of Desire and Reality When Nagisa Ōshima released In the Realm of the Senses (Ai no Corrida) in 1976, the world was not ready for it. A Japanese–French co-production, it was called “too real” for its graphic sexual content, yet it was also undeniably one of the most emotionally raw and culturally […]
My Argentine Heart
Fictional Narratives and Reality’s Fingers Intertwined ‘My Argentine Heart’ was described and promoted as a romance story a romance with betrayal and sacrifice. However, the description and the poster’s trailers did not show the true turbulence the movie was going through. In fact, the heartache and chaos which the cast and crew faced was being […]