Why is bent rated nc 17

Information is power. Support the free press, so we can support Austin. Events Home. Roadshows Live Music Venues. Home Events Movies. Bent , NC, min. Directed by Sean Mathias. The Informer. The Song of Names. Holocaust drama about a missing musical prodigy never finds its rhythm. Fantastic Fest Review: Barbarians. Frida Friday x Fuego. Max : Good, you had taste. The White Mouse? Max : I'm surprised you never saw me there. Did you sunbathe? Horst : I love to sunbathe. Horst : That's right.

Max : And you never saw me? Horst : Well, actually I did. I saw you by the river. You were making a fool of yourself, and I said, someday I'll be in Dachau with that man moving rocks. Sign In. Play trailer Drama History Romance.

Director Sean Mathias. Martin Sherman screenplay. Top credits Director Sean Mathias. See more at IMDbPro. Trailer Photos Top cast Edit. Lothaire Bluteau Horst as Horst. Clive Owen Max as Max. Mick Jagger Greta as Greta.

Brian Webber Rudy as Rudy. Jude Law Stormtrooper as Stormtrooper. Gresby Nash Waiter as Waiter. Sean Mathias. Martin Sherman screenplay play. The underlying message is, it's every man for himself; the film will refute that. In the camp, Max is assigned to shift rocks from one pile to another. He's joined by Horst Lothaire Bluteau , who he met on the train. But soon, in the midst of dread and a bitter winter, they find erotic desire stirring, and there is a scene where they stand side by side, with no eye contact, and by describing their feelings verbally are able to arrive at simultaneous orgasm.

This scene works like the chase scene: It drops out of the drama to stand alone as entertainment--as eroticism. A better film would have found a way to absorb the sexuality into the underlying theme; both scenes are crowd-pleasers, and so is a closing sequence which seems staged more as a noble tableaux than as drama at all. Max's personal victory we of course applaud, but does the film, with its methods, deserve the sentiment it requests?

Sherman's stage version of "Bent" is, I am told, a moving experience. During the film, there was scarcely a moment when I wasn't aware of its gears cleverly turning.

Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from until his death in In , he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. Lothaire Bluteau as Horst. Ian McKellen as Uncle Freddie.