Maddie’s car is repossessed when she’s unable to pay her taxes. But her hometown, the Long Island summer beach community of Montauk, New York, is gentrifying. Maddie (Lawrence) is a 32-year-old Uber driver who starts the movie never having been paid for sex. This film review hasn’t even had a chance to comment on the Big Fat Gypsy Wedding-style comedy European music that plays constantly and the baffling lurch towards feminism in the final scenes, but why kick a dead dog when it’s down? And this film is a dead dog and a half.The Jennifer Lawrence vehicle from Sony Pictures revolves around a sex worker who, like the film, doesn’t want to admit what she’s doing.
That’s pretty impressive for a 70-minute film.Īnd that’s where we should call it a day. The sheer length of each shot in these sequences suggests that there wasn’t enough material for the runtime. This is probably because the story is pure afterthought: a flimsy excuse to move from slo-mo bum-shaking sequence to sex-scene to male-fantasy lesbian rutting. Everyone else emotes in the most childish way possible, delivering a script that doesn’t even sound like it finished its first draft. Lead actress Taylor Sands is a porn actress by trade and it shows in every frame: sure she can pout prettily like the best of them, but when it comes to delivering lines she sounds like a toddler just learning to speak for the first time. The performers, without exception, are terrible.
Of course, soft porn has never really suffered from bountiful budgets the best star that the Emmanuel films of the 90s was aging failed Bond George Lazenby, after all.īut this is only the start of the problems here. The brothel scene, which sets up as much of the “story” as we’re ever going to get-look so unconvincing, you can practically see the sets swaying in the lightest of breeze. Instead, what we have here is a grubby and sleazy view of women from the male gaze, which manages to be about as erotic as tarmac.Įverything about Picture of Beauty feels cheap and dirty: from the televisual cinematography of the cold-open so-mo words run, to the sets when the action moves indoors. The rise of the ease of access to hardcore pornography has caused a lot of problems for Western society, but it’s had one advantage: soft porn nonsense posing as art has died away in recent years.Ĭlearly no one has told writer-director Maxim Ford, whose debut feature Picture of Beauty has pretensions to musing on the nature of repression. In a repressive climate sexual exploration repression and liberation are and represented. Quote:Two pretty girls come of age and a painter has an unusual commission.
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