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In this strikingly original independent drama from Canada, a young woman finds that her obsession with death is challenged when she falls in love with a handsome medical student. Sandra Larson (Molly Parker) was fascinated with the dead from an early age; as a girl, she and her best friend would find the bodies of birds and small animals and devise funeral rituals for them, though Sandra always took these adventures far more seriously than her compatriot. As Sandra matures into womanhood, her
Apr 11, 1997 Wide
Aug 23, 2005
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This uncommonly assured feature debut takes a metaphysical view of necrophilia.
Stopkewich has taken on a subject that can't help but be controversial but presents it in a way that is completely non-exploitive and non-sensational. . .it is lyrical.
It is a futile claim to make that Kissed is less about necrophilia than it is about the nature of obsession and addiction. Though this is a perennial (and often generic) theme in film, in Kissed it is uniquely characterizing.
Explores the intersection between sex, death and the search for transcendence.
What makes this film standout, is that the subject matter is necrophilia.
Creative progression and fantastic casting doesn't quite counterbalance the creepy necrophilic premise.
January 18, 2009
Super Reviewer
Kissed is the Citizen Kane of films involving necrophilia. it's directed very well by Lynne Stopkewich in lighting, cinematography and an emotional way of exploring the subject. I really can't think of any other film where the corpse is a male and a living breathing woman is female. This is not an exploitation movie
June 3, 2010
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