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Rating: 3 out of 5 Original Title: Etsuraku Release Date: 1965 Director: Nagisa Ôshima Netflix Link IMDb Link |
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Pleasures of the Flesh is part of the new Eclipse Series 21: Oshima’s Outlaw Sixties, which I’m slowly working my way through. I have a hard time mustering up the desire to watch a lot of the Eclipse sets since it seems that Criterion throws them anything they don’t really want to give the full Criterion treatment.
Pleasures of the Flesh might as well be called “Women Will Fuck Up Your Life” since that’s the basic premise. It’s a fairly unique story which is a mixture of Brewster’s Millions and any movie where a guy falls for a girl with disastrous results. It gets some points for originality, but otherwise, there’s not all that much here to recommend. 3.5 stars rounded down to 3.
