![]() Lead actress Taylor Sands is a porn actress by trade and it shows in every frame: sure she can pout prettily like the best of them, but when it comes to delivering lines she sounds like a toddler just learning to speak for the first time. The performers, without exception, are terrible. Of course, soft porn has never really suffered from bountiful budgets the best star that the Emmanuel films of the 90s was aging failed Bond George Lazenby, after all.īut this is only the start of the problems here. ![]() The brothel scene, which sets up as much of the “story” as we’re ever going to get-look so unconvincing, you can practically see the sets swaying in the lightest of breeze. ![]() Instead, what we have here is a grubby and sleazy view of women from the male gaze, which manages to be about as erotic as tarmac.Įverything about Picture of Beauty feels cheap and dirty: from the televisual cinematography of the cold-open so-mo words run, to the sets when the action moves indoors. The rise of the ease of access to hardcore pornography has caused a lot of problems for Western society, but it’s had one advantage: soft porn nonsense posing as art has died away in recent years.Ĭlearly no one has told writer-director Maxim Ford, whose debut feature Picture of Beauty has pretensions to musing on the nature of repression. In a repressive climate sexual exploration repression and liberation are and represented. ![]() Quote:Two pretty girls come of age and a painter has an unusual commission. ![]()
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