Virgin Territory (2007)

User Rating:

4.9/10   

Director:

David Leland

Writer (WGA):

David Leland (written by)

Release Date:

6 March 2008 (Russia)

Genre:

Drama | Adventure | Comedy | Romance

Plot:

Young Florentines regale one another in the Italian countryside while the black plague decimates their city. |

Plot Keywords:

Premature Ejaculation | Udder | Skinny Dipping | Pole Dancing | Jealousy

Cast

Ryan Cartwright	...	Ghino
Christopher Egan	...	Dioneo
Craig Parkinson	...	Tindaro
Hayden Christensen	...	Lorenzo
Simone Spinazze	...	Andreuccio
Jay Villiers	...	Bernardo
Diego Guerra	...	Gerbino's Man on Wall #1
Ruffo Riccardo	...	Gerbino's Man on Wall #2
Tim Roth	...	Gerbino
Mischa Barton	...	Pampinea
Clive Riche	...	Manghino
David Walliams	...	Cart Pusher
Riccardo Merra	...	Dead Man on Cart
Silvia Colloca	...	Sister Lisabetta
Chiara Gensini	...	Sister Caterina

Also Known As:

Angels and Virgins (USA) (working title)
Chasing Temptation (USA) (working title)
Decameron Pie (Italy)
Decameron: Angels & Virgins (USA) (working title)
Guilty Pleasures (USA) (working title)
Il decamerone (Italy) (pre-release title)
Medieval pie - Territoires vierges (France)

MPAA:

Rated R for sexual content, nudity and some language.

Runtime:

97 min

Country:

Italy | UK | France | Luxembourg

Language:

English | Russian

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

Singapore:M18 | Italy:T | Finland:K-13 | Australia:MA | Australia:MA (2009) | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Bracciano, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Company:

Carthago Films S.a.r.l.

Quotes:

Lorenzo: [after getting waken up by the nun, getting discovered that he isn't deaf and mute] Ehmm... A miiiiiracle! I CAN SPEAK!

Movie Connections:

Version of Il Decameron (1971)

Soundtrack:

Tender

R-rated B movie of Fantasy/Adventure with a surprisingly good cast of actors

Virgin Territory is for secondary and high-school teens. If you're older than 18, you can't get any taste from this work of fiction, or wise to say, a tale.

Tim Roth, Mischa Barton and Hayden Christensen form a love triangle. Tim Roth is the bad guy, the grim Roman knight; Mischa Barton is the princess popular with her virginity; and Hayden Christensen is an adventurer exactly seems like Robin Hood. By the way, we have a narrator, our storyteller who also plays a role, too.

The tale takes place in feudal Europe, at the age of Roman Empire, and in the most leisured class of this empire: Florence. It's the epoch just before the invention of the gunpowder. Nevertheless, there is no historical coherence in this movie; for it's a fantasy. An absolutely complete fantasy of a craftsman working at the construction of a cathedral, who is also our narrator. While he was drawing artistic figures to the ceiling, he dreamed of an erotic and desirous fantasy of one man and a full nunnery of nuns playing the doctor-and-patient game altogether.

If you're not from this world or have never watched a B-movie about nuns teaching sexology to a lad yet, then this could be a movie for you. The eroticism factor of Virgin Territory is very modern. Within a negative view, it's purposely making fun of the people who don't believe in sex before marriage. In an optimistic view, love still exists; at least whoever in love with someone, stays in love with the same one at the end.

A funny and total shameless teen adventure movie for both boys and girls is what you will find. Don't worry if it's disturbing, obviously it's not. It's basically a modernization of 80s' eroticism epoch. New generation youth wouldn't watch Emmanuelle, right?