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27 March 2008
A blazing score and smart direction can’t prevent Anna Kokkinos’s long Australian movie from seeming rather pretentious, even if the subject matter — male rape by females — is audacious.
The raped man is a handsome young dancer (Tom Long) who is kidnapped by three hooded women, chained up and forced into all sorts of sexual deviance before being dumped from a car 12 days later.
Too ashamed to tell the police and half-fascinated, half-repelled by his ordeal, he is a broken man until true love kindles his desire to live a normal life again.
Though the cast act with intensity, the film seldom bears the weight of its Biblical title comfortably, even if it does make you think of the way women are often treated in similar circumstances.
The Book Of Revelation
Cert: 18
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