Il gusto dell'anguria

caitiello

So I think this film is stunning and one of the most fascinating engagements with pornography and society I've ever seen — but please be warned that it grows more and more disturbing. From the first scene, which looks purely pornographic, to the last, which is entirely showing the artifice of porn, it builds a world of sexual alienation which must make do with insufficient replacements for the "water" of life.

Jesse Furgurson

By far the least erotic thing here is the actual fucking, which is more a source of comedy and, eventually, horror.

Duncan Gray

The tragedy of love in a porn-saturated universe, a story of people who might connect as souls but have sexual roles to play, and most of all an explosion of ideas and genres (romance, sci-fi, musical). It isn't easy to take at times, particularly in a finale whose visceral disgust shouldn't overshadow what it has to say about male-female relations. But I left feeling I must have seen some odd kind of brilliance.

Aflwydd

I have nothing to say about that last half hour. Surely the most audacious, hilarious, and poignant sequence that most of us have seen? Tsai, you never cease to amaze!

Aditya Watts

So much genius. It's a favorite from my younger days. One of those films along with Stalker, Persona, Marienbad etc. which opened me up to cinematic possibilities and totally astonished me in the process.

Bobby Myers

Certainly the most bizarre, puzzling, funny, charming, and altogether strange musical art-porn I've seen. I am officially on a quest to find the expanding noodles featured within this film and cook them.

dionysus67

Pastiche has rarely worked when severed from the subtle yet radical style of modernism. Here, this kitsch cocktail of parodic transgenderism, of putative critique of the porn industry, and of liquidities of sorts falls flat due to its own excesses. Cheap postmodernisms and a profane depiction of sex render the aphasic couple no more than a mechanical generator of empty gazes. Reactionary, vacuous and obsessive.

Wee Hunk

Great. Now my wife thinks I watch porn. This is one of the boldest and self-assured movies I have seen in a while. But we skipped some movies, MUBI! How about 'The Skywalk Is Gone' and 'Good Bye, Dragon Inn'? Then we can watch 'I Don't Want to Sleep Alone'. OK?