Love Exposure

A perverse saga of adultery, lust, and manipulation. A soaringly mythological drawing of corruption and how it unravels its fangs. Sono Sion's four-hour epic is a trailblazing tale of deceit, depravity, purity, impurity, blasphemy, faith, conviction, delinquency, delirium, psychosis, treachery, trauma, hope, heartbreak, hatred, anguish, violence, and redemption. It's a tantalizing drama that encapsulates the vicissitudes of the human condition. This Japanese maverick's film lures us in and makes us feel as if we're in on the joke, but the punchline is never revealed, or perhaps it's right there in front of us all along. There are layers of deception in this epic journey, yet the experience is so rambunctiously funny that it's weirdly satisfying to let ourselves be deceived. Filthy fun this film was.