Filmmaker Ira Sachs has called the Motion Picture Association’s decision to give his film an NC-17 rating “a form of cultural censorship.” In a conversation with the Los Angeles T…
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“We hunger for movies that are in any proximity to our own experience,” the director added. “To find a movie like this, which is then shut out, is, to me, depressing and reactionary.” Distributor MUBI acquired the film out of Sundance. It backed Sachs’ sentiments, and said the film will be released unrated in New York and Los Angeles theaters on August 4, with a wider rollout to follow.to the MPA in anticipation of the theatrical release in the United States. We unexpectedly received an NC-17 rating, which may limit the film’s ability to play in some cinemas nationwide. We are deeply disappointed by the MPA’s decision and MUBI has officially rejected this NC-17 rating.
“It’s so 1950s that this still exists,” Sachs said of the MPA decision. “We’re talking about a board that is not visible, that doesn’t make its rules known, that exists in silence. We’re talking about a select group of people who have a certain bent, which seems anti-gay, anti-progress, anti-sex — a lot of things which I’m not.”
“There’s no untangling the film from what it is,” the filmmaker concuded. “It is a film that is very open about the place of sexual experience in our lives. And to shift that now would be to create a very different movie.”
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