Murmur of the Heart (1971)

This loosely plotted coming-of-age tale follows the life of 15-year-old Laurent Chevalier as he stumbles his way over the burgeoning swell of adolescence in 1950s France. After having his first sexual experience with a prostitute and dodging the lips of a priest, Chevalier contracts a case of scarlet fever. When the fever leaves him with a heart murmur, Chevalier is placed in a sanatorium, along with his over-attentive and adulterous mother.

Jan Dara

Jan Dara

January 2, 2018

Jan Dara grows up in a house lacking in love but abundant in lust. He quickly picks up the sinful way of life of the man who married his mother after she became pregnant from being graped. His ‘father’s’ mistress welcomes the young boy into her literal bosom. Wanting badly to know his real father, Jan leaves the house, only coming back after Khun Luang’s daughter falls pregnant out of wedlock. Jan does a favor […]

Incest: Can You Forgive Your Mother? Yuna Hayashi [ABP-168]

Unbeknown to her son, Yuna Hayashi works as a porn star in the adult video industry. Her opportunistic director meets her son by chance and gives him a DVD of one of her works, one in which Yuna’s husband is actually the one screwing her. The director then blackmails mother and son to have sex so that he can film it and sell the video. Of course, the director joins in as he also desires […]

Taboo Charming Mother (2003)

On the outside, it seems as if the Amamiya family of Enbo is a picture of happiness and stability; Yosuke is a successful businessman, having recently been remarried to a beautiful wife named Misako. Their son, Kazuhiko, is in college. But for Misako, things aren’t so fine and dandy: Kazuhiko is cold and distant toward his stepmother; the workaholic that is Yosuke doesn’t satisfy his wife in the bedroom; and Misako receives menacing phone calls […]

The Ages of Lulu

The Ages of Lulu is a gruelling sensual odyssey from Spanish director Bigas Luna, made immediately prior to his popular trilogy Jamón, jamón (1992), Golden Balls (1993) and The Tit and the Moon (1994). Starting as the somewhat queasy story of the young Lulu’s affair with the manipulative Pablo (Oscar Ladoire), the movie takes a much darker turn once they are wed. It is conventional cinematic wisdom that there’s no such thing as sex after […]