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Michael Winterbottom is the most prolific and the most audacious of British filmmakers in the last twenty years. His television career began in the cutting-rooms at Thames Television, and his first directing experience was on the Thames TV documentaries,
realistic, avoiding the gratifications of melodrama, at least as the mode is practised in Hollywood cinema. Again, With or Without You raises expectations of romantic comedy but deflects – or dissipates – these with a surprising acridity of tone; and the noir -influenced I Want You hovers between thriller and erotic drama. And how does one designate 9 Songs ? Realist sex and concert scenes, to the point where there is almost
who was really expecting an apothecary. Explicit, even pornographic accounts of sexual acts and sexual diseases were apparently not as problematic when addressed to an educated audience.79 In the (of course) anonymous The Practical Part of Love (1660) readers encountered a good amount of realist sex that is nevertheless not openly described. The narrator betrays his social elitism when he describes nymphomania, ‘Furor uterimus, which for modesty sake I shall express in Latine.’80 The learned and scientific, it appears, may exist beyond any approach, implying first