Episode 24 - Art or Porn? (In the Realm of the Senses / The Wayward Cloud)

Big thanks to Paul Keelan from Cinematic Underdogs (anchor.fm/cinematicunderdogs) for joining us for this wide-ranging discussion about two art films whose explicit— and often un-simulated— sexual content caused some to cry obscenity: Nagisa Ōshima’s 1976 erotic true crime story In the Realm of the Senses, and Tsai Ming-liang’s 2005 surrealist romance The Wayward Cloud. We discuss their wildly different yet similarly frank approaches to sexuality, and have it out about which one is actually a great movie. (Hint: we do not agree.)

You can hear more from Paul on his podcast Cinematic Underdogs at: anchor.fm/cinematicunderdogs

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