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Love Exposure

Ai no mukidashi

2008

Sion Sono

Takahiro Nishijima, Hikari Mitsushima, Sakura Ando, Hiroyuke Onoue ...

7.3

2,276

Drama. Comedy. Romance Having grown up in a devout Christian family, Yu (Takahiro Nishijima) has always been a well-behaved kid. After his mother dies, his priest father is seduced by a woman who breaks his heart, causing him to torment Yu by forcing him to confess his sins on a daily basis. Of course, being a fairly normal kid, Yu has no legitimate sins to confess. To appease his increasingly demanding father, Yu is determined to become a true sinner, ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Gabe Toro IndieWire	"In the end, 'Love Exposure' seems more concerned with torturing our characters than it is with allowing their exposure. But what exhilarating torture it is."	POS
United States	Jeannette Catsoulis The New York Times	"An unexpectedly involving and relentlessly entertaining collision of contradictions (...) Exhibiting astonishing dexterity, Mr. Sono shapes all this trauma into a narrative that’s completely coherent and surprisingly touching"	POS
United States	Russell Edwards Variety	"Mitsushima’s turn as Yoko commands the screen. Tech credits are good enough."	POS
United States	Scott Tobias AV Club	"Like all great l’amour fou movies, it feels more spontaneous and out of control than it actually is—what seems messy is really just grandiose."	POS
United States	Simon Abrams Slant	"[It] is, in a sense, Sion Sono’s equivalent of the Great Russian novel (...) Boisterous and vital, 'Love Exposure' is a call to arms (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Deeply strange and politically incorrect, baffling, and often funny (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Mark Olsen Los Angeles Times	"It’s difficult to call it anything like a masterpiece, but a one-of-a-kind experience 'Love Exposure' most certainly is."	POS
United Kingdom	Phil de Semlyen Empire	"Complicated and long but deftly handled adventure/caper/satire that ends up being thoroughly entertaining (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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