19 September 2006

Hard core romantic comedy: a new genre?

Showing at the London Film Festival is Shortbus, a romantic comedy that includes"a startling scene of self-fellatio and has three ejaculations before you have made a mark on your popcorn. There are unsimulated scenes of straight sex, gay sex, orgy sex, onanistic sex, lesbian sex, voyeuristic sex and probably other categories besides."

Self fellatio? I, for one, am impressed. It must involve an unusual combination of length and flexibility (on the part of the member's owner rather than the member).

Surprisingly the film has been given by standard 18 certificate by the BBFC. It wasn't that long ago that Reservoir Dogs couldn't be released in cinemas.

I can't wait till it comes to the local Odeon.

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