The opening & closing minutes of The Virgin of Lust summarize the life & times of its protagonist in a series of quick-cut tableaus & block-letter intertitles that spell out their intent like a children’s book: “Life flows like a river,” “Every day’s the same,” etc. At the very least, it’s openly acknowledged by the text. The bizarre thing is I suspect that Flagrantly Cheap quality was somewhat intentional.
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There’s nothing especially cinematic about its execution, to the point where it reads more like a televised stage play than a legitimate Movie – complete with that soap opera frame rate effect that makes all BBC shows look like trash, even the expensive ones. This film is unequivocally, unashamedly Cheap. I mean that in regards to its actual price, its production values, its approach to sexuality, and its flavor of political commentary. Immediately after hitting play, it became apparent why I waited so long to give this film a chance. In that way, watching The Virgin of Lust was more than just some lazy, prurient afternoon viewing to help pass the time during this period of coronavirus-incited isolation. It’s been a full decade since there was a Blockbuster Video operating in New Orleans, though, so it’s genuinely shameful that it took me this long to work my way through the last of my purchases from that chain’s cheap-o cast-offs. At one time, Blockbuster’s 4-for-$20 liquidation sales of used DVDs comprised the majority of my new movie intake, especially in the days when I was too broke & too busy to make it out to the theater more than a couple times a year (between working full-time in restaurants and attempting to graduate college). The cloudy, bumpy texture of its plastic casing is the biggest indicator of that shame: it was a Blockbuster Video purchase. A few of my physical media purchases have rotted in that Shame Pile limbo for years, but none are quite as ancient nor as shameful as the 2002 Mexican melodrama The Virgin of Lust. This disruption of movie distribution has afforded me a lot of time to tackle what I call my “Shame Pile”: a bin of assorted DVDs & Blu-rays I haven’t watched since I purchased them. As a response to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, almost all cinemas have entirely shut down in order to adhere to proper “social distancing” practices, prompting movie studios to either unceremoniously dump this season’s new releases to VOD streaming platforms or to delay them for the indefinite future. Stratton praised the production design, adding, "The acknowledgement to movies of the 50s is very clear here and very well done".As you’ve likely noticed, there aren’t a whole lot of new releases out there right now. In her review Pomeranz concluded, " Love in Limbo may not be ultimately, totally satisfying but it certainly has its share of entertaining moments". Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton for SBS TV's The Movie Show both rated the film three stars out of five. For Cinema Papers, Karl Quinn wrote, "To note that David Elfick's Love In Limbo is a beautifully-designed film is to point to both its greatest strength and its great weakness, for it is surely one of the best recent examples of the triumph of style over substance". Lowing described the film as "unatmospheric but well-produced" and "laced with distressingly puerile Porky's-like humour". Rob Lowing, film critic for the Sydney Morning Herald rated the film two stars out of four. In the Philippines, the film was released as Touch Me, Kiss Me, Love Me in November 1995. Love in Limbo was released in Australia on. ( January 2016) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)
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