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  • 1999
  • R
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 46 m
  • 1999
  • R
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 46 m

Summary The Loss of Sexual Innocence is the story of Nic, told through the crucial, sometimes humorous and often heart-breaking episodes of his life. We catch glimpses of what makes Nic the man that he is, tracing incidents that happen to him as a five year old boy, as a twelve year old adolescent, as a 16 year old teenager, and as a fully grown...

Directed By: Mike Figgis

Written By: Mike Figgis

  • 1999
  • R
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 46 m
  • 1999
  • R
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 46 m

The Loss of Sexual Innocence

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 27 Critic Reviews
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Summary The Loss of Sexual Innocence is the story of Nic, told through the crucial, sometimes humorous and often heart-breaking episodes of his life. We catch glimpses of what makes Nic the man that he is, tracing incidents that happen to him as a five year old boy, as a twelve year old adolescent, as a 16 year old teenager, and as a fully grown...

Directed By: Mike Figgis

Written By: Mike Figgis

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 27 Critic Reviews
42
37% Positive
10 Reviews
30% Mixed
8 Reviews
33% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 27 Critic Reviews
42
37% Positive
10 Reviews
30% Mixed
8 Reviews
33% Negative
9 Reviews

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88
Not all of it works, but you play along, because it's rare to find a film this ambitious.
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW
75
The Loss of Sexual Innocence is not a masterpiece (at times, its obtuseness can seem ponderous and pretentious), it is nevertheless a fascinating experience, with the focus being on the artistic elements inherent in the medium rather than on the narrative.
By James Berardinelli FULL REVIEW
63
It's beautiful to look at, and marvelously edited, but it's hard to know exactly what he's getting at. [28 May 1999]
By Jack Mathews FULL REVIEW
50
The absence of substance, or its banishment, and the director's reliance on allure (in the film's casting and in its look and sound, which features haunting music by Beethoven and Chopin), leave Innocence with the quasi-profound, giggly overreach of a magazine layout come to shameless, shallow life.
By Wesley Morris FULL REVIEW
40
The Loss of Sexual Innocence is a failure to be sure, but if it's not exactly a brave one, it's one whose foolhardiness deserves at least half a salute.
By Charles Taylor FULL REVIEW
25
With The Loss of Sexual Innocence, director Mike Figgis reaches an almost comical low in the pursuit of what appears to be a desperate need to express deeper, uh, depth. Figgis' deliberate obfuscation may delight him, but it leaves the viewer mystified and bitter. [18 Jun 1999]
By Barbara Shulgasser FULL REVIEW
10
What I experienced was a lot of fetid experimental-film folderol perfumed by Chopin nocturnes on the soundtrack.
By Peter Rainer FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Newmarket Capital Group, Red Mullet Productions, Summit Entertainment
Release Date May 28, 1999
Duration 1 h 46 m
Rating R
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Awards

Turkish Film Critics Association (SIYAD) Awards
• 1 Nomination

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