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Necrophilia | Woman Director
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1998 | Lynne
1998 | Lynne
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role | 1997 | Molly
1998 | Molly
1996 | Lynne
Best Canadian Film | 1998
Best Motion Picture | 1997 | Lynne
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role | 1997 | Peter
Best Achievement in Direction | 1997 | Lynne
Best Screenplay | 1997
1997 | Lynne
1997 | Lynne
Molly Parker almost quit acting just before getting this role. She had just come off of a guest spot on the Highlander series (1992) and felt unfulfilled, not only by that part, but by acting as a profession. She longed to play a full character. So when cinematographer Gregory Middleton, who had worked with Parker before on a short film, reached out to her about taking the lead role on Kissed, Parker took the leap. She didn't care that it was a very controversial film and role that could possibly ruin her career, because to her mind, she didn't have a career to ruin.
The film is based on real life necrophiliac Karen Greenlee who in 1979 stole a corpse while working as an embalmer at a mortuary. She was driving a hearse with the corpse of a male to its funeral when she instead made a U-turn and decided to keep the corpse for her sexual pleasure. She was later caught and confessed to having had sex with 30 to 40 corpses.
Director Lynne Stopkewich said in an interview that she put off telling her parents what the film was about for over a year. Once she broke the news to her mom and dad, they were horrified at first. But, after they saw the film, the director's mother exited the theater weeping with affection for the lead character. Her father was moved as well. As Stopkewich said: "I had just committed a subversive act. I got my parents to love this necrophile."
The film is rated R18 in New Zealand for it's disturbing content concerning necrophilia, sex, nudity and a suicide.
The filmmakers didn't have enough money to produce dailies while filming, and only saw them three months later, after the director had received some financing from the National Film Board in Canada.
"[first lines] Sandra Larson: When you die, your life... flashes, and you disintegrate, radiating energy. When a thing turns into its opposite, when love becomes hate, there are always sparks. But when life turns into death, it's explosive. There are streaks of light, magical, and electrifying. Everyone senses something, some energy, some spirit, some sort of illumination, But I see it. I've seen bodies shining like stars. Some say there's no soul, no afterlife, that life and death is the straightest line on the compass, and nothing more. I say believe what you want, because no matter what you do, cut everything up, burn it all down, you're in the path of something beyond your control."
"Sandra Larson: It's like looking into the sun without going blind. I'm consumed."
