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
- JOAQU PHOENIX’S NEXT PROJECT WILL BE AN NC-17 GAY LOVE STORY
'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? * nc-17 gay movies *
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.
JOAQU PHOENIX’S NEXT PROJECT WILL BE AN NC-17 GAY LOVE STORY
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. Well, there’s one thg the two movi have mon… Are films that feature gay them and gay sex judged on a harsher sle? “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.