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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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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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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
passable
bad acting but interesting story
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Most recent members' reviews (2)
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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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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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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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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
passable
bad acting but interesting story
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Better than expected
Got this for my wife and I to watch out of curiosity. Looking around the net it gets mixed reviews. We liked it. James Woods was excellent as her father suffering from Parkinson's Disease. The female lead was very plausible. All in all a film that was a bit different. Those wanting porn it is not.. albeit with some 'industry' related scenes.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
hits the spot...eventually
Slow start, but picks up pace as it goes along, gets quite gripping near the end. Acting is a bit ropey in the first 15mins, but some good performances start to shine through
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
really deep !!
There is a lot more to this film than meets the eye - on one side its Moon's story of her involvment in the porn industry and on the other side its her relationship with her ill father and the another side you see her stuggle open up to a potential partner - its really quite deep.There is nudity but really thats not the thing that draws in your attention it is the charater Moon that captures your heart. Highly recomened
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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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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
worst
not sure how did it end up in my list, but oh god-what is with some movies? this one not even rated as porno! and its really no story,,bad bad bad
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
interesting
a rare insight into the world of porn!! but it is not all sex, sex, sex.
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
This Girls Life
I have seen quite a lot of movies in my time and this is a first for me - that is this is the first movie EVER that I didn't see to the end. Life is too short to spend any longer than the 15 minutes I could bear until I had to give in and turn it off. One of the worst movies I have ever seen, and that's saying something - - - as I've said I've seen a hell of a lot of movies and moreover quite a few bad ones at that but this is by far the WORST!!!!! For whatever reason you may be drawn to this movie resist and maybe try Head-On' ('Gegen die Wand', Directed and written by Fatih Akin, staring Birol Unel)which is another movie from the makers of this one, but better by miles.
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