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January 16, 2006
Battle in Park City: Heaven's school crossing
Explicit sex scenes get Carlos Reygadas' Battle in Heaven pushed from a planned screening at Sundance's largest venue, the Eccles Theatre, which is part of a complex shared with a local high school. Its January 20 slot was vacated when "school officials found out about the film’s now-infamous scenes of graphic sex and voiced their objections to the festival," PRs the film's publicist, as the noon screening time is within school hours. "Officials contacted the Sundance Film Festival who informed Tartan Films, the movie’s U.S. distributor, of the situation. Sundance moved quickly to relocate the first public screening to the Library Theatre."
At its 2005 Cannes debut, the release continues, suggesting the acronym FFF, "many critics were agog at Battle's opening and closing scenes of full-frontal fellatio. But perhaps more remarkable than the explicitness of sex is the directness with which Reygadas addresses issues of class, race, and religion in contemporary Mexico. The film, a critically acclaimed and aesthetically stunning journey through the labyrinth of life and death in present-day Mexico City."
Posted by pride at January 16, 2006 07:50 PM
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