Directed by: Sophie Hyde
cast: Emma Thompson, Daryl McCormack, Isabella Laughland
drama / Great Britan / 2022
Duration 137 min
hosted by: Monika Kopiec

Benshi is a series of film meetings of cinema fans with a flair for discussion. If you love cinema – join us. Look for inspiration. Inspire.

Series: Caution, Lust!
After August emotions related to fear, in September we will visit much more pleasant places. For years, cinema has been fascinated by human sexuality. However, the censorship was vigilant and it was impossible to show physical love in the frame for a long time. In the United States, the Hayes Code guarded the morality of the public. Films that did not submit to its censorship could be banned from showing in cinemas. It was so ruthless that it was even forbidden for kiss scenes to last longer than 3 seconds. It is even more worth mentioning the cunning of Alfred Hitchock in the 1946 film “The Familiar”, where he showed a 3-minute kiss scene, but thanks to appropriate editing cuts and interjected dialogues, he did not break the rules of the code. Meanwhile, in Europe, censorship was not so strict. The first “bed scene” happened in 1933 in a Czechoslovak film directed by Gustav Machaty, entitled “Ecstasy”. Later, other taboos on this subject were broken by prominent artists such as Roger Vadim, Ingmar Bergman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Roman Polański and Bernardo Bertolucci. Today moral censorship practically does not exist. Recently, sexual films have been appearing more and more often in cinemas. This is evidenced by our September titles, the oldest of which is 3 years ago. Of course, only adults are invited to the screenings.

Project co-financed by the Polish Film Institute.

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