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een filmtip voor deze zomer :

gratis openluchtfilms onder de Boekentoren in Gent --> www.viewmaster07.be

een echte 'toren'-film hierbij is L'Empire des Sens ofte Het Rijk der Zinnen van Oshima (en nee, het gaat hier niet om toren in de letterlijke betekenis...) Ik heb hem zelf nog niet gezien maar de reacties zijn divers : sommigen noemen het gewoon porno, anderen vinden het een schitterende auteursfilm... Kenners?

programma:

06|07 KING KONG
viewmaster Sylvia Van Peteghem

13|07 UNITED 93
viewmaster Tine Van den Brande

20|07 THE TOWERING INFERNO
viewmaster Jan Verheyen

27|07 VERTIGO
viewmaster Daniël Biltereyst

03|08 L'EMPIRE DES SENS - HET RIJK DER ZINNEN
viewmaster Jan Bosmans

10|08 DOCU THE LIFT + RED ROAD
viewmaster Maria Tarantino + l.e.s.i.n.i.t.i.a.l.e.s.b.b.

17|08 THE ANIMATED CITY
viewmaster Edwin Carels

24|08 PARIS QUI DORT (live begeleid) + COURTISANE-COMPILATIE
viewmaster Steven Jacobs + Courtisane

31|08 THE HUDSUCKER PROXY
viewmaster Ward Verrijcken

porno of niet, ge kijkt best niet naar het einde van l'empire des sens

Een wat cinefiele Japanse film die gewoon alle taboes omtrent sex aanpakt zou ik zeggen , verslaving aan lust ... einde brengt boodschap idd goed over

ps porno is veeel afgelekter en vrij goedkoop

edit ...exactly my feelings (user comment vanop imdb)

A powerful artistic film about 'the love of love'., 28 July 2004
Author: serum108 from japan

These two people representing the extreme examples of the masculine and feminine psyche lovingly devour each other into a downward spiral. The film gives you a voyeuristic look at love, and a couple controlled by it. From the beginning to the end, Oshima paints the emotional, sensually charged roller coaster decent into hell visually without the brakes. The further they pave their sexual adventures the further they travel into the point of no turning back.

Both forces essentially fighting till the death or at least holding on for dear life. This film is basically taking love and putting it on heroin. It is showing us the dependency, the loneliness, the pain, the absurdities, the withdrawal, the addiction of it. The film works at desensitizing the senses. This film is forcing us to give our definition of love.

The film demands us to look past the themes of the average love story. While the censors are busy looking for their scissors, the film nudges the viewer to begin questioning the definition of love/sex. The director tries to answer with rhetorical questions about the event. What could possess a couple to have sex for a whole week for it only to lead up to a severed penis? How did they get to that point? Wouldn't it have gotten kind of boring after awhile?

The actual sex acts shock the average viewer at first yet the longer we stay along for the ride the less we pay attention to it. Is sex about love or is love about sex?

Both. Yet I wouldn't call this pornography, nor would I call Hollywood love stories 'love stories'. Pornography implies the act of sex without feelings. This film fails to live up to that definition by showing us more than a small share of emotion behind all the grunts and moans. Sex is merely the background vehicle to this Japanese monster truck of a journey. Oshima wants you to walk away without any doubts at what happened during that week.

Getting over the skin of the fruit and right to the juice of it you will find that after digesting it, that this film is essentially a commentary about the bounds of love. Probably tasting something like durian.