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Jacques Nolot, Vittoria Scognamiglio, Sebastien Viala, Olivier Torres, Lionel Goldstein ... see more see more... , Frederic Longbois , Fouad Zeraoui , Jean-Louis Coquery

Jacques Nolot is the writer, director, and star of the French comedy drama Glowing Eyes. The film takes place in an adult movie theater in Paris during a screening of the porno film "La Chatte à Deux ... read more read more...Têtes," which happens to be the French title of the film itself, literally translating to "The Two-Headed Pussy." In the lobby, a frank conversation develops between the jovial Italian ticket seller (Vittoria Scognamiglio), naïve projectionist (Sébastien Viala), and a fiftysomething regular customer (director Nolot). Meanwhile, various men from all walks of life engage in anonymous sex in the downstairs theater, some of them joining in on the intimate discussion by the ticket booth. Glowing Eyes was screened at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival as part of the Un Certain Regard program. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi

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Unrated, 1 hr. 28 min.

Directed by: Jacques Nolot

Release Date: October 10, 2003

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DVD Release Date: March 23, 2004

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Michael Booth
January 16, 2004
Michael Booth, Denver Post

Porn Theatre is exactly that, no surprises. Full Review

Tom Long
December 12, 2003
Tom Long, Detroit News

Repugnant in its salacious superficiality, Porn Theatre manages to be boring and vile beneath its transparent veil of artistic pretense.

John Monaghan
December 12, 2003
John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press

Even those titillated by the graphic sex will have to admit that the movie is repetitive and ultimately boring. Full Review

Allison Benedikt
December 4, 2003
Allison Benedikt, Chicago Tribune

Porn Theatre, as the title suggests, is not for the sexually conservative. Not even for the sexually moderate liberal. It is, however, for the right crowd in the right mood, a very fine film. Full Review

G. Allen Johnson
November 21, 2003
G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle

Porn Theater is revealing only physically, not emotionally or intellectually. Full Review

Frank Scheck
October 23, 2003
Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter

Tracks the goings and particularly the comings among a group of male patrons at a seedy Paris porn theater, but bored audiences enduring this talky, aimless film might wish that they, too, were watchi...

Kevin Thomas
October 16, 2003
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times

Porn Theater is not for everyone, but the open-minded should find it enlightening as well as entertaining. Full Review

Dave Kehr
October 10, 2003
Dave Kehr, New York Times

Porn Theater functions best in its voyeuristic, sociological mode, offering fragmentary glimpses of complicated lives and the complicated social rituals that shape them. Full Review

Elizabeth Weitzman
October 10, 2003
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News

A yawn. Full Review

David Ng
October 8, 2003
David Ng, Village Voice

Knowingly antiquated in a world of Internet porn, it taps into the sepulchral undercurrents of communal spectatorship. Full Review

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