FEATURE Kissed - A Movie by Lynn Stopkewich Necrophilia is possibly the last subject anyone would expect to be the subject of a movie, let alone a dramatic romance movie. Sandra Larson (Molly Parker) as a young girl performs rituals for the dead, which begins her morbid fascination. This fascination compels her to seek employment at a funeral home where she can spend time alone with the corpses of young men.On the whole, this movie is very simple. The plot complications one expects don't arise, instead the story just gets told. Another very pleasant aspect of the movie is it isn't a cautionary tale. The movie doesn't delve into psychiatry trying to justify anything. What it is is a tender dramatic love story. While the relationship between Sandra and Matt (Peter Outerbridge) develops far too quickly, it is only a small bump in an overall intense story. The ending is exactly the ending it deserves, shocking as it may seem to most American viewers accustomed to sanitized entertainment unless it is in the form of violence. This movie will not become a classic by itself but in conjunction with Sex, Lies, and Videotape and Crash, it helps define alternative sex in a non-accusatory manner.
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