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Old 6th May 2010, 07:20 PM
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Originally Posted by vincenzo View Post
It's astonishing to think that Ferman passed In The Realm Of The Senses uncut (bar for the bathroom edit) for cinema back in 1991. Especially given the hardcore scenes involved. Incidentally quite a few countries preferred to use the BBFC edited print.

BBFC case study on the film here.

I agree that it's far more than simply a sex film. Eggs-actly.
Ferman habitually cut films to ribbons, but once in a blue moon he'd be 'controversial' and release an arty-farty film like Senses uncut. Didn't he do the same with Salo? Trying to show what a 'true' fan of film he was. Or maybe he was just a perv
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