Sion Sono is ‘Guilty of Romance’

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We have Gaspar Noe who’ll next mince elements of porn into a mainstream NC-17 film, but beating him to the punch-line we find Japanese helmer Sion Sono embarking on a new project that, according to the film’s sales agent, promises to include “hard sex scenes”. The AFM sold Guilty of Romance will star a little-known unnamed actress, and will obviously become one more example of how the filmmaker behind recent TIFF preemed Cold Fish and Strange Circus continually works with a poetic curriculum that provokes.

Gist: Not much to go one here except for what appears to be a sci-fi like template…: this begins on a night that a woman’s body, cut in half and otherwise violated and attached to a mannequin, is found in an abandoned building.

Worth Noting: Was reading up on Sono’s Wiki entry and found that in 1994 Jean-Jacques Beineix and Jackie Bastide used footage of Sion Sono’s poetry group and interviewed him for their famous documentary Otaku, about the otaku lifestyle and post-modernism in Japan. It supposedly made Sono gain fame as both a poet and prominent figure in Japanese independent filmmaking.

Do We Care?: We criminally missed out on the serial killer flick Cold Fish at TIFF, so we have that film to look forward to before we saddle into sci-fi porn film.

Eric Lavallée
Eric Lavalléehttps://www.ericlavallee.com
Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson’s "This Teacher" (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). He is a Golden Globes Voter, member of the ICS (International Cinephile Society) and AQCC (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma).

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