There is an article about this film, and about the blasphemy law, in today's
Independent (Wednesday, 27th November) by Sara Maitland.
She has seen it, and describes the video as "taking up where Bernini left off:
an actress plays Teresa gradually removing her habit, masturbating
and finally fondling a statue of the crucified Jesus. This is accompanied by
many bells and candles and rococo church ornaments, and a flagellation scene."
Sara Maitland goes on to suggest that one may find this video "pretty
tacky" but that it does not mock Teresa, or God, and that therefore she,
as a Christian, cannot see why "this odd little work should be judged
blasphemous in the first place."
There is a photograph accompanying the article, which I presume to be a
still from the film.
Beth Williamson
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On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, GP. Ferzoco wrote:
> > Does anyone know more about the content of this film? I only heard
> > about its censorship today, and was curious as to why it was causing
> > such a furore. Thanks in advance.
>
> Surely SOMEBODY out there has seen it! Until s/he tells us about it, I can
> say that when I was on a radio programme today to speak briefly about
> eroticism in medieval mysticism, one of the panelists -- a right-of-centre
> Christian -- said that one of his staff members had seen the film, and had
> told him that the nun kisses the wounds of Jesus, and, apparently without
> anything on under her dress, rubs herself on his body. More than this, I
> do not know; and of course, as you are reading this description, written
> by someone who hasn't seen it, told about it by someone who hasn't seen
> it, this is hardly the stuff of which reliable scholarship is made.
>
> In the meantime, has anyone actually seen the thing?
>
> George
>
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