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Most moviegoers still have never heard of Bill Condon. But his sharp wit and almost predatory sense for provocative themes are making Condon the next great American auteur. Kinsey, which Condon wrote and directed, will launch his name from the murky depths of IMDB.com forums to the lips of audiences everywhere...
With Gods and Monsters, a fictionalized biography of the last days of Frankenstein director James Whale, and Kinsey, Condon aligns himself with the great pantheon of directors like John Ford, Douglas Sirk and Francis Ford Coppola who bring auteurist pizzazz to classical Hollywood filmmaking structures...
...Kinsey, based on Alfred Kinsey, founder of the Kinsey Institute for Sex Research, is going to be highly controversial. Condon pulls no punches with Kinsey, choosing to include many of Kinsey’s lesser-known sexual exploits and his very objective (read: non-exclusive) approach to his personal sex life...
...Kinsey also takes sex into a broader sociological context by dramatizing the fatal flaw of Kinsey’s research and personal sex life. Kinsey was the first person to ever study sex objectively, an inherently flawed occupation because “sex [is] a factory of emotion,” says Condon. This was an “inconvenient thought for [Kinsey] because he was trying to separate sex and study it completely from a scientific perspective...
...Kinsey is more or less a traditional bio flick, fraught with melodramatic dialectics and plot points that you will see coming a mile away; however, Condon’s style keeps getting in the way of all that. Though working with conventional Hollywood filmmaking and storytelling techniques, Condon manages to bring an artistic sensibility to enervated Hollywood clich?...