52 Films by Women Vol 10. 21. TRULY NAKED (Director: Muriel D’Ansembourg)
Pictured : Alec ( Caolán O’Gorman , right) pays attention in class in a scene from the coming-of-age drama with a twist, ' Truly Naked ', written and directed by Muriel D’Ansembourg . Still courtesy of Paradiso Films (Netherlands) There are coming of age movies and there’s Truly Naked , a not quite British film (with a very non-specific English setting) in which a teenage secondary school boy who records pornography for and starring his father falls for one of his classmates, Nina (Safiya Benaddi) when they are paired for an assignment involving internet pornography addiction. Of course, pornography should not appear in the same sentence twice. Indeed, a father should not encourage his school-age son to make pornographic videos. I don’t see this film being screened in English cinemas any time soon, except maybe at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. The protagonist’s father would hate that – he insists that pornography isn’t art. The Bristol Watershed would ...