From Fri. 16.1. to Sun. 18.1. the 23rd Mannheim Film Seminar will take place - the topic is the filmmaker Jane Campion, who will be examined in detail under the motto "In Dialogue: Psychoanalysis and Film Theory". Information and registration: https://cinema-quadrat.de/filmseminar/

IN THE CUT

USA/GBR/AUS 2003. D: Jane Campion. D: Meg Ryan, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Jason Lee, Kevin Bacon. 119 min. DF. FSK: 16

Single Frannie Avery lives a contented life without many social contacts. Then she sees a woman in a bar giving a man oral sex - the man has a tattoo on his wrist. Shortly afterwards, the woman is found dead outside Frannie's house, murdered by a serial killer. Frannie meets Detective Giovanni Malloy and the two of them embark on a passionate affair. And Malloy has a tattoo on his wrist...
Campion delivers an exciting erotic thriller in which she deals with questions about the value and possibilities of relationships as well as female desire and sexual obsession: a woman with her own desires in a world of unpredictable, aggressive masculinity. "The way Campion realizes female desire between longing for love and hunger for sex, between romantic dream and cold reality, is outstanding cinema." (Tages-Anzeiger)