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Aroview: A controversially explicit sex'n'rock'n' roll drama about two stray souls - an American student and a British bloke - who over a year have an intense relationship, primarily carnal but also interwoven with the rock concerts they enthusiastically attend together.

Shot with an amber graininess and fitted end-to-end with a succession of songs by the likes of Franz Ferdinand, The Dandy Warhols and Primal Scream, this revels in the onscreen depiction of hardcore sex of many varieties. Drawing a charged and honest, yet also banal, portrait of human obsessions, this finally surrenders any attempts at characterisation and plot to an almost abstract appreciation of intercourse.

NZ International Film Festival 2005

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