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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780767837378
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0767837371
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 07, 1999
Running Time: 106 minutes
Sales Rank: 25742
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: May 28, 1999
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
At turns both mesmerizing and frustrating, Mike Figgis's 1999 experimental feature interweaves an audacious dramatization of the Adam and Eve myth with autobiographical vignettes from the director's life. In Figgis's golden rendering of the Genesis tale, the first humans are a black man (Femi Ogumbanjo) and a white woman (Hanne Klintoe), who emerge one day, fully formed, from a lake, and regard each other with playful wonder. They discover, like children, their anatomical differences, and explore the surrounding green paradise until coming upon the tree of knowledge. From this they eat and almost instantly reevaluate one another with a steely lust. Thus their, and our, fabled fall from grace ends in the mire of sexual possession and walled-off feeling, a tragedy that Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas) uses as a touchstone for the contemporary story of a filmmaker named Nic (Julian Sands). Nic's own youthful experiences with various kinds of formative humiliation, including finding his teenage girlfriend in bed with his best friend, are presented as flashbacks meant to resonate with his marital unhappiness today. Less clear are other moments out of time that don't particularly connect with Figgis's major theme, especially an odd development in which twin sisters (both played by Saffron Burrows), each unaware of the other's existence, have a fleeting, worlds-are-colliding encounter at an airport. Figgis also reaches into a grab bag of Nic's other old sorrows, things that don't uniquely inform or enhance the film's point, and muddies things up a bit. But the sheer hubris of marrying a myth with a memoir carries the day here, and Figgis leaps the hurdle of potential self-parody with a certain courage. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Lost In Vain
I am not here to critique any of the other reviewers who gave this film 5 stars, who called it "ambitious and mesmerizing", which this film is far from. Just here to warn you that this self-indulgent, boring and "Lynch" wannabe should be viewed with a laugh track of its own. Maybe a drinking party game, where every time someone viewing this film says "huh?'", you take a shot. You'll be passed out in no time. And speaking of time...don't waste it on this one.
Rating:  - Thoroughly disappointed
I read a few reviews here saying things like, "brilliantly ambitious" and "not your mainstream movie" ... how the movie makes you think and how colorful and amazing it is.
Well, it's not. I've seen and enjoyed plenty of other silent, artsy, foreign, or otherwise "non-mainstream" movies, and this is one of the most dull and boring by far. Make that painfully boring. No message, nothing to chew on, no insight. How can a film be considered poignant when everything in it is so blatantly ... Read More
Rating: - An ambitious film that fails to deliver.
Although Mike Figgis is perhaps best known for his 1995 romantic drama Leaving Las Vegas, his most ambitious film to date is his 1999 Loss of Sexual Innocence, which tells the autobiographical story of his sexual development as a filmmaker through three stages of his life. In a non-linear plot, the low-budget, grainy film chronicles the sexual coming-of-age of Nic, first as a young boy in Kenya in 1953 (John Cowey), then 10 years later as an adolescent in England (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers), and finally as ... Read More
Rating:  - The Loss of Sexual Innocence
Based to a great extent on the authors life experiences, this film consists of a series of interwoven allegories based on the eternal values of good, evil, and retribution. Autobiographical scenes taken from the authors own life often portray a reality which makes you feel that you may have once been there yourself.
This is one of a handful of films which have to be regarded as great literature. You won't watch it just once.
Rating: - OH my goodness
This movie changed my life!!!
the plot line was so good it was awful
i had no idea what the movie was about
it jumped from a dog getting humped to a little blue person being hit by a car
it is amazing
if i had to watch one movie over and over again in my life
this wouldnt be it
but it would be number 2 or 3 on my list because it is that good
now back to the little blue person
what was that about i mean if i hit a little blue guy i would not stop driving ... Read More
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