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reviews.imdb.com - : You'd think that a film named after an ancient book of sexual wisdom at least might generate some heat, and unfortunately you would be sadly mistaken. There is a fair amount of skin in KAMA SUTRA, and a few lengthy sex scenes, but without any real passion or connection developed between the characters Nair's direction makes those scenes look like the soft-core porn of a Playboy instructional video. Even those scenes don't make sex seem as abstract and impersonal as the occasional snippets of Kama Sutran erotic philosophy dispensed by Rasa Devi. more...
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3/10
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rogerebert.suntimes.com - : ``Kama Sutra'' is a lush, voluptuous tale told in 16th century India about two young women who grow up to pleasure a king--one as his wife, the other as his courtesan.To find a film like this from the 1960s, made by a man, would be one thing; to find it made in 1997 by Mira Nair is more startling. Nothing in her previous work (the great film ``Salaam Bombay!'' and two good films, ``Mississippi Masala'' and ``The Perez Family'') prepared me for this exercise in exotic eroticism. more...
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2/4
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www.rochestergoesout.com - : Of course, most folks never have seen a sex-drenched mythological epic film from India. Still, Kama Sutra is an undeniably stylish and unique film that does not try to be anything but itself. What is that self? Well, it isn't a whole lot like Batman. Or Deep Throat. In fact, the film has all the grandiloquence and high drama of a Shakespearean play. more...
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7/10
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