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Three films by some A-list directors, all dealing with the erotic. Eroticism as a theme is one thing, but a film being erotic is another entirely. All of these three films are to some extent the former, but only one of them comes anywhere close to the latter. And that’s Wong Kar-Wai’s ‘The Hand’, where there are moments of muted eroticism. However, even in this film the more appropriate description is probably sensuousness; it’s a mesmerising, beautifully meditation on longing and thwarted desire. Just magical. The Soderbergh film is very different – clever and witty, with Robert Downey Jr and Alan Arkin on top form. The last of the trilogy – Antonioni’s effort – can only be described as drivel. It is of embarrassingly poor quality. It chooses to use the most nudity of the three, and is completely without any eroticism whatsoever. [IMDB link: http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0343663/ ]
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