So the other day I came across this trailer for an Australian film titled Black & White & Sex after checking out what films were screening at this year’s Sydney Film Festival. I’ll be honest, it was the title that caught my eye, but after watching the trailer I am now more than just intrigued. Writer and first time director, John Winter, seems to have put together a very crafty film that is bound to either greatly surprise people or greatly disappoint them, there doesn’t appear to be a middle ground with this type of film.
The trailer itself is very sexual as one might imagine, but it’s also thought provoking and leaves you guessing as to what the film might actually be about (which is why I have provided the synopsis below). I also am really digging the black and white aspect; I think it adds a bit of class to a film that’s based on the sex industry.
Check out the trailer and synopsis below and please leave your thoughts on the trailer in the comments section further down the page.
Australian producer John Winter (Rabbit-Proof Fence, Doing Time for Patsy Cline) makes his directorial debut with a conceptually daring work that adopts a film-within-a-film structure. Angie (played alternately by Katherine Hicks, Anya Beyersdorf, Valerie Bader, Roxane Wilson, Michelle Vergara Moore, Dina Panozzo, Saskia Burmeister and Maia Thomas) is a sex worker being interviewed by a director (Matthew Holmes) who is making a film about sex. Determined to set the record straight about love, seduction and power, Angie’s interview is erotic, funny and confronting. Her intellectual striptease and no-holes-barred approach to talking about sex ultimately turns the tables, exposes the interviewer and positions him as an unwilling subject. Nicola Daley’s luscious black-and-white cinematography evokes the grand Hollywood ‘casting-couch’ era and Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests; Adrian Rostirolla’s editing slips provocatively and seamlessly between the knockout performances from the eight Angies; and Winter’s sharply intelligent script tackles the most mysterious and everyday subject head-on.
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