Young Adam (review)
Yes, it’s the nudie Ewan McGregor film. Yes, another one. But the NC-17 rating is absurd — the nudity is casual and brief, the sex is consensual and mostly under cover of clothing or blankets; there’s nothing pornographic about this soft, sly little film based on Alexander Trocchi’s 1954 novel. Where it’s disturbing is in McGregor’s (Big Fish) challenging, defiant performance as Joe Taylor, a hand on a coal barge in 1950s Scotland. Joe and his boss, Les Gault (Peter Mullan: Criminal), find the nearly naked body of a young woman floating in the canal one morning; soon after, Joe begins a clandestine sexual liaison — furtive grappling can hardly be called an affair — with Joe’s wife, flinty Ella (Tilda Swinton: The Statement). Did one event prompt the other? Giles Nuttgens’s washed-
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MPAA: rated NC-17 for some explicit sexual content
viewed at a private screening with an audience of critics
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