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Joaqu Phoenix is takg up another notch after Ari Aster’s 'Be Is Aaid,' teamg up wh Todd Hayn for an NC-17 gay romance film.

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'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

'Passag' is NC-17, 'Red, Whe & Royal Blue' is R—are gay films beg rated on a stricter sle? * gay movies rated nc 17 *

Pedro Almodóvar’s movi often provoke, but 2004’s “Bad Edutn” actually earned the director an NC-17 ratg for one scene which Gael García Bernal’s head is seen bobbg up and down durg a pictn of gay oral sex. As many are quick to pot out, Passag‘ NC-17 ratg reeks of homophobia, spirg wrer-director Sachs to ll out the MPA for beg “anti-gay, anti-progrs, anti-sex.

The whole thg brgs to md the recent R-ratg for Amazon’s upg gay rom- Red, Whe & Royal Blue, based off the popular book of the same name by Casey McQuiston—self a massive h wh olr teen and young adult dienc. To s cred, Red, Whe & Royal Blue isn’t y about the gay relatnship at s center and do clu a small handful of fleetg love-makg scen, but they are— this wrer’s timatn (havg seen an early preview of the film)—pretty tame and barely even show sk.

JOAQU PHOENIX’S NEXT PROJECT WILL BE AN NC-17 GAY LOVE STORY

Well, there’s one thg the two movi have mon… Are films that feature gay them and gay sex judged on a harsher sle?

TODD HAYN’ JOAQU PHOENIX-LED GAY ROMANCE MOVIE WILL BE RATED NC-17

“We’re talkg about a select group of people who have a certa bent, which seems anti-gay, anti-progrs, anti-sex—a lot of thgs which I’m not.

"While a fal NC-17 ratg n spell paltry sal at the box office, the whiff of a prelimary NC-17 ratg – wh s promise of sex and vlence -- n crease tert a chronologil orr, ABC prents some of the most popular films to ever earn the NC-17 ratg:'Midnight Cowboy'Released 1969, before NC-17 beme an official MPAA ratg, "Midnight Cowboy, " starrg Dt Hoffman and John Voigt, beme the first X-rated film to earn an Amy film, which follows the story of a stgglg male htler and his nman iend stgglg to get by New York Cy, earned Osrs for Bt Picture, Bt Director and Bt Adapted film, which clus a scene referencg gay sex, earned an X ratg and opened to limed release 1969.

Bent (1997) $496, 059Set 1930s Germany, this harrowg film featur a gay Jew who is sent to a Nazi ncentratn has an approval ratg of 73 percent on Rotten Tomato and won Bt Feature Film the Toro Internatnal Gay & Lbian Film Ftival 1998.

JOAQU PHOENIX TO STAR GAY ROMANCE MOVIE, PHED FOR NC-17 RATG

Joaqu Phoenix is takg up another notch after Ari Aster’s “Be Is Aaid, ” teamg up wh Todd Hayn for an NC-17-rated gay romance film.

It’s a gay love story set 1930s L. The Los Angel Tim reports that Passag, about a gay uple (Franz Rogowski and Ben Whishaw, a. We’re talkg about a select group of people who have a certa bent, which seems anti-gay, anti-progrs, anti-sex — a lot of thgs which I’m not.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* GAY MOVIES RATED NC 17

'Passag' director nounc 'dangero' NC-17 ratg on a film pictg a gay love story .

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