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Key Information
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| Directors: |
Jacques Nolot |
| Actors: |
Vittoria Scognamiglio |
| Genre: |
Foreign Films |
| Subgenre: |
French |
| MPAA Rating: |
Not Rated |
| Available Formats: |
DVD |
| UPC: |
712267230525 |
| Release Date: |
2003 |
| Running Time: |
1hr 28min |
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Languages
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| Release Language: |
English (Subtitled) |
| Original Language: |
French |
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DVD Editions
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Format: DVD, 1hr 28min
Release Company: Strand Releasing (February 05, 2004)
UPC: 712267230525 |
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Credits
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| Screenwriter: |
Jacques Nolot |
| More Information |
| Details: |
PORN THEATER, as its title suggests, covers a day in the life of a Parisian pornographic cinema, foregrounding its marginalized male patrons and their activities inside. Because the film cuts between only three locations--the ticket area, the main viewing theater, and the grungy, yellow bathroom--it effectively seals off the world outside, providing the viewer with a heightened sense of containment. An extraordinary amount of screentime is given to the spectators in the theater simply watching the film, the effect of which is almost Hitchcockean in the sense of cinematic double entendre--as one watches the characters in the movie viewing a movie, one becomes conscious of the architecture of the theater, the mechanics of film projection, and the other viewers. When PORN THEATER draws to a close, then, it is no surprise the pornographic film the characters watch also comes to conclusion, and everyone must leave their respective theaters more or less together. The film additionally makes comment on disease ... |
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