50 years after it first came out, the surreal, erotic and brilliant 'Luminous Procuress' has been restored and rereleased.
Luminous Procuress
without acknowledging the hardcore sex that features in the film. But the inclusion of hardcore sex alone doesn't necessarily mean a film is designed to be pornographic. Whether it's , it's clear that sex, whether real or simulated, can play a pivotal role in film without needing to simply advance the plot.shows is that films about sex and desire have always been made, and that now, those kinds of films are more important than ever.
Where some moments in the film embrace or poke fun at fetishistic imagery, the one hardcore scene doesn't feel pornographic. Instead, the camera focuses on the interplay between bodies and the intimacy that can come from offering all of yourself to another person. It’s given an added layer of potency when looking at how brazenly, explicitly queer is. Films about desire matter and always have.
The film hangs on this idea of understanding; that desire is a language that we learn to speak -- whether talking to ourselves or others -- and seeing the strange, extravagant beauty of serves as a reminder of what a shame it is that this is something cinema has been silent on for too long.
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