This Is a Blowjob

This Is a Blowjob

2001 · 56 min · ★ 5.5 · Documentary

In a bookstore, Patrick B. discovers a collection of photographs showing naked black male models. But in the demo copy, photographs that show sexes were methodically cut, so that small square windows now open throughout the volume. Fascinated, Patrick wants to buy the book but the Seller refuses to sell him. He then steals the book but gets caught ... Produced as part of a series entitled "Diaries" for Canal, the authors of "Dancing" deliver chronic reflection on the powers of the image on the representation bodies and sexuality, making a film on the intimate and the public, to the confusion of genres ...

Directed by Pierre Trividic

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