Screen Slate On The Rapture
By Madelyn Sutton
Though the lurid cover art and enticing pull quote (“It goes places movies seldom dare to go!”) promise explicit, boundary-pushing eroticism, The Rapture (1991) is outrageous for entirely different reasons. The film’s first 20 minutes or so do offer plenty of soft-core nudity and a quick threesome, but the audacity of the next 80 minutes is nearly sufficient to erase the memory of young David Duchovny’s washboard abs and questionable haircut.
Read the full article on Screen Slate. Words By Madelyn Sutton.
The Rapture screens on 35mm Nov 16th at 9:45 PM, Nov 18th at 7 PM and Sat Nov 19th at 7:30 PM
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