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This Girl's Life
2006
"Slice of life" take on life of international porn celebrity, Moon, and her musings on modern life, love and loss Read more
| Starring | James Woods, Juliette Marquis, Kip Pardue, Tomas Arana |
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| Director | Ash |
| Genres | Drama |
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This Girl's Life
"Slice of life" take on life of international porn celebrity, Moon, and her musings on modern life, love and loss
| Starring | James Woods, Juliette Marquis, Kip Pardue, Tomas Arana, Michael Rapaport, Rosario Dawson |
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| Director | Ash |
| Studio | SODA PICTURES |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 40 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 25 Sep 2006 Production year: 2006 |
| Format | DVD |
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9 out of 9 people found this review helpful
A symapthetic character you will care about...
This film is not a gratuitous excuse for nudity and sex scenes, although the film does have its raunchy moments. Skin is not the beauty of this film, rather the reason this deserves to be watched is because of the emotional attachement it develops between the watcher and the main characters. Although slow to start with, it develops in to a real human interest story that at times is deeply moving and always highly watchable. It will get you thinking about your own prejudices, misconceptions and fragility but never in too depressing a way,
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Bridget Jones goes porno
This film purports to set itself apart from a schlocky skin flick with a genuine attempt to address the life of a young woman, who quite simply enjoys hedonistic sex on camera, and the daily attention and 'stardom' that goes with it in the web-cam age, as it is a film made by Ash about a woman who can do that, without an apparent history of abuse, she tells us. I assumed Ash was a woman but later googled the info that Ash is a man who has been a stripper. I heterosexually think that explains a lot. Our ethereal, naive and alternative main character played by Juliette Marquis (alternative as per the third eye dot on her forehead) is shown as almost nurturing of her gang bang on screen partners, and dutiful daughter to James Woods, suffering from Parkinson's in an excellent supporting role, but finds that porn is full of exploitative and exploited characters. Whilst still deeply proud of her sensuality, men then become the enemy, as for some inexplicable plot reason she decides to drop the porn a bit and become a lure for potentially faithless men, on a professional basis, hired by other women. This proves unsurprisingly dangerous and the plot develops soap-style drama from there. The film is firmly from the Striptease and Showgirls genre and really pretty poor over all. There was room for psychological insight as the lead character tells us early that her mother committed suicide, but that is simply left unexpanded upon after that, except for a slight inference that it seems significant to her that her first scene is with a sensuous woman, and no sense that a mother's suicide might be a form of abuse. Woods was good though, in a performance I would not have thought he was capable of, and which deserves to be seen, but not in this film. There is nothing much here as witty or insightful as say, a couple of pages of Belle de Jour's diary. I may have made it sound more interesting than it is, because the theme of the true sensual and emotional life of a woman in a world apart from mainstream society is one of the first literary ones, like Richardson's Pamela, or Cleland's Fanny Hill or Zola's Nana. I hope not; read them instead. Oh, and I fell for the review by the chap from Oxford about sympathetic character and not about the beauty of skin etc. He seems like a nice man, but he's too good for the film.
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This Girl's Life
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