Profane

Very difficult to review, indeed, I notice there are very few reviews out there. It is a beautiful film to look at and it occurs to me that it might have made an even more successful photographic exhibition as every frame seems worth framing, as you might say. But I am being frivolous, which this extreme and very serious film is not. Not strictly a narrative movie we nevertheless follow a day or daydream or week in the life of a Jordan born beauty who having worked as a prostitute now specialises as a Fem Dom dominatrix whilst worrying over her lack of understanding of the Koran. This mix of Muslim and SM sex is somewhat worrying particularly when the sex scenes get strong, which they do (even more so in the extras!) and much as the leading lady is serious about her quest she clearly is strongly attached to her sex partner, played by Molly plunk who seems to find both the sex and the religion a great joke. Oh and there is much consuming of alcohol and hard drugs, even during some of the bondage scenes which seemed a bit scary. Overall, well worth seeing if you are open minded enough and can take the extreme stuff, if only for the remarkably beautiful imagery, settings, naked bodies and not forgetting the marvellous costumes and great original music.

The core idea is good. A prostitute turned dominatrix, breaking between being a dominatrix or obeying the Quran. That' all good, however the movie is so poorly executed that that story is wasted.

What do i mean? Well, first of our two main characters are not likeable at all. Neither Luna, Una whatever her name is, and her best friend are just rude and not likeable at all. Both of them are just for the sake of being there really.

The only likeable is Ali, he is the only guy you will care for, because he is the only person in this entire movie that is likeable, nice, and actually fun to listen to. The visuals, the effects are really bad. There extremely poorly made. The story is wasted on scenes where nothing is going on, or scenes that are taken from other sources that are just slapped here for the sake of being slapped, like the war footage in the end, it has nothing to do with our story, but it's there cuz yeah why not.

The acting seems wooden. Nobody here really seemed to act well, everyone here seemed to do it because of force. Even the picture quality in this is kind of bad. Really some of the scenes are really poorly recorded. Also, there's zero subtitles, and there's scenes where she is talking in Muslim, or scenes where it's difficult to understand what they are saying. Since my language is not English first, i prefer having English subtitles so i can read what the hell the people are saying, here there were none.

Also there's this mini story that Luna, Lua is being possesed by some demon or something, exorcist. And to that, just go and watch the original The Exorcist or Satan's Slave for example, and dont waist your time with this honestly i was bored during the entire movie, i was hoping for it to end, and i just waisted my time with this.

No there's no reason for you to watch this, it's really not good at all. And in the end, if you want a movie about how drugs are bad, go hunt down Requiem For a Dream and Red Krokodil, i'm sure you'll enjoy both of those far more then this.

It may be "groundbreaking" because it has a Muslim dominatrix, and? That's the one-trick pony for this entire thing. It has a Muslim dominatrix. Honestly, that's it. Because it's too difficult for the Muslim faith to understand sexuality in any context outside of itself and like most religions will condemn and harm what it never will understand, let's make a movie to make sure that the religion is tweaked that little bit more. It's an art movie, it's disjointed, has very little in terms of plot, doesn't really say much other than to constantly show shock images after shock images probably just to get a rise out of the fundamentalists. And? That's it folks. It just really isn't that good a movie outside of the shock factor. And, if you're not a devout Muslim, it won't shock you. If you are a devout Muslim, you're only watching it to be outraged.