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Release Date:

March 21, 2014

Synopsis:

From IMDb: “A self-diagnosed nymphomaniac recounts her erotic experiences to the man who saved her after a beating.”

Poster: C / B / C (2) / C+ / B- / B- (14)

Review: (#1-#4) This first design isn’t the teaser, but it’s probably the most marketable of the posters. Taking the nine sexual poses of the individual character posters and making them into a Brady Bunch-styled grid may appeal to those already somewhat interested, but will just as easily offend others, which is what this entire film is designed to do. The second was the teaser most of us got. Using parentheses, the designers clearly want to evoke a innuendo-laced design without runny afoul of censors. It works. The subsequent two designs try the same thing, but without the same level of success.

(#5-#20) Opting for a closer-up version of the leading character poster, the producers aren’t really looking to do more than titillate with this design. Poster six is far more provocative, but quite a bit more obvious. This is followed up by 14 character posters, each featuring a different star of the two-part film in varying states of sexual progress, most of them in a fit of orgasm, but not all, making for an interesting examination of human response to sex. These are definitely encouraging a health discourse, but simultaneously infuriating the very prudish people the film would never have appealed to in the first place.

Trailer: C

Review: As unconventional as the premise is, the film itself looks completely conventional. The film looks to explore the joys and duties of sex, the interpersonal relationships of various types of sexual creatures and then trying to examine what makes them tick. Whether it’s ultimately successful is beside the point if it can conjure up a healthy debate among those who aren’t too enraged to do so.

Oscar Prospects:

None.

Revisions:

(March 16, 2014) Original

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