Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story)
Director: Eva Husson
Talent: Finnegan Oldfield, Marilyn Lima, Lorenzo Lefèbvre, Daisy Broom
Release Date: 17th June
A group of French teens decide to liven up their mundane Biarritz existence by starting an after-school sex club in the midst of an unprecedented heatwave. Given the “controversial” nature of the subject matter, it’s not altogether unsurprising that, in spite of being dire trash, Eva Husson’s film has been picked up by international distributors for the gimlet eyed delectation of suburban perverts everywhere.
What is shocking about Bang Gang is not its base and titillating appeals to the lowest common denominator of art cinema audiences, but rather the have its cake and eat it approach taken in the final sequences when, rather cursorily, each of its nubile orgy participants are informed by the school nurse that they have syphilis. The cynical conservatism of the film’s conception is thus given a narrative expression, appeasing the authoritarian neuroses of the average parent in the same movement as it stokes the crypto-sexual drives, necessarily denied, that begat them.
Words: Oisín Murphy-Hall
