Kissed (1996)

User Rating:

6.3/10   

Director:

Lynne Stopkewich

Writers:

Barbara Gowdy (story)
Angus Fraser (writer) ...

Release Date:

11 April 1997 (USA)

Genre:

Romance | Drama

Tagline:

Love Knows No Bounds.

Plot:

Over the years, a child's romantic ideals about death blossom into necrophilia, the study of embalming and the most profound relationship of her life.

Plot Keywords:

Embalming | Necrophilia | Male Full Frontal Nudity | Disturbing | Obsession

Awards:

6 wins & 8 nominations

Cast

Molly Parker	...	Sandra Larson
Peter Outerbridge	...	Matt
Jay Brazeau	...	Mr. Wallis, Mortician
Natasha Morley	...	Young Sandra
Jessie Winter Mudie	...	Carol, Sandra's Best Friend
James Timmons	...	Jan, Mortuary Janitor
Joe Maffei	...	Biology Teacher
Robert Thurston	...	Detective
Annabel Kershaw	...	Mother Larson
Tim Dixon	...	Father Larson, Owner of Larson's Flowers
Amber Warnat	...	Lisa Brown
Bill Finck	...	Minister
Janet Craig	...	Mourner
Edward Davey	...	Embalming Professor
Hamish Wilson	...	Gurney Goner, a Cadaver

MPAA:

Rated R for aberrant sexuality and some language.

Runtime:

78 min | Canada:88 min (Ontario)

Country:

Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Italy:VM14 | Canada:R (Ontario) | USA:R (video version) | Singapore:(Banned) | New Zealand:R18 | Australia:R | France:-16 | Germany:16 | Hong Kong:III | Norway:18 | Switzerland:18 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:18 (canton of Vaud) | UK:18 | South Korea:18

Filming Locations:

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

Boneyard Film Company Inc.

Goofs:

Continuity: When she and Carol are dancing, Sandra raises her arms and her midriff shows. Later, when she removes her top, a camisole has appeared.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Sandra Larson: When you die, your life... flashes, and you disintegrate, radiating energy. When a thing turns into its opposite, when love becomes hate, there are always sparks. But when life turns into death, it's explosive. There are streaks of light, magical, and electrifying...

Movie Connections:

Featured in Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche (2004) (TV)

Soundtrack:

Bounds of Love

Much more than a necrophiliac girl

Maybe the greatest achievement of the film is that it was able to deal with an subject such as necrophilia without falling into tastelessness. It's easy getting horrified at the idea of people being sexually attracted for corpses, but the relationship of mankind with death (That primigenial and fascinating fear) can go that far and, if you think of it, it goes way far beyond . If you are not willing to get into any reflexions about how the dead are treated, you may fell uneasy about the film. The contrast between Sandra and the other people manipulating bodies (the teachers, the embalmer) is rather eloquent.

But what I personally liked the best about it is how it figures relationships, elucidating the insane need of one not having the other have its own and private corner, the need of forcing the other to share it, and the woe that comes from not being able to stand it. In this line, necrophilia becomes just an excuse.