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The Loss of Sexual Innocence (1999)

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Average Rating: 4.8/10
Reviews Counted: 30
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Critic Reviews: 6
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Director Mike Figgis, creator of the Academy award-winning Leaving Las Vegas, presented this film's world premiere at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival. The story is made up of non-linear, interconnected episodes about a man at different stages of his life, all of which explicate thematically the film's title. The film also juxtaposes a retelling of the classic biblical fall-from-grace tale of Adam and Eve. We see the leading character, Nic, at 5 years old as a boy in colonial Kenya, at age 16 in

R, 1 hr. 46 min.

Drama

Directed By: Mike Figgis

Written By: Mike Figgis

In Theaters: May 28, 1999 Wide

On DVD: Dec 7, 1999

Sony Pictures Classics

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Cast

Julian Sands
Nic (as adult)
Saffron Burrows
Twins
Stefano Dionisi
Lucca
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Nic (age 16)
Kelly Macdonald
Susan
Femi Ogumbanjo
Adam
Hanne Klintoe
Eve
Johanna Torrel
Nic's Wife
George Moktar
Nic (age 12)
John Cowey
Nic (age 5)
James Bradley
Band Member
Bernard Hill
Linda Evangelista

Critic Reviews for The Loss of Sexual Innocence

All Critics (48) | Top Critics (13) | Fresh (14) | Rotten (16) | DVD (4)

A promising movie from Mike Figgis. Where are you Mike?

July 17, 2007 Comment

Cole Smithey

ColeSmithey.com

The material is... indulgent. The film is ambitious, but somehow incomplete.

July 8, 2004 Comment

Jake Euker

F5 (Wichita, KS) Source: F5 (Wichita, KS)

It seems more like a student film turned in as a project assignment.

February 3, 2004 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews

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Dennis Schwartz

Ozus' World Movie Reviews

One of the worst films ever made.

January 17, 2003 Comment

Jeffrey M. Anderson

San Francisco Examiner

...Figgis -- one of the most interesting and meticulous directors around -- has made a genuinely boring and confusing movie.

December 8, 2002 Full Review | Comment

Philip Martin

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

I see [Figgis's] point, and I appreciate what he tried ... but it left me cold.

October 27, 2002 Full Review Source: Goatdog's Movies

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Michael W. Phillips, Jr.

Goatdog's Movies Source: Goatdog's Movies

Explores the twists and turns of sexual desire in the life of an English film director born in South Africa.

March 4, 2002 Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice

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Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

Spirituality and Practice

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This plot-free film plays like a stream of dreams. The downside is that it also feels like a film-school experiment driven by Calvin Klein ad aesthetics. The core story is about a filmmaker who has lost much more than the film's provocative title suggests. Scenes in which a curious child evolves to a jaded adult are

August 21, 2009