Love Exposure(愛のむきだし)

Time Out London by

These dysfunctional, hypersensitive Japanese teens and their quest for erotic and spiritual enlightenment make for a swooning, often riotously funny melodrama charged with a refreshingly perverse undertow.

Time Out by David Fear

If you see only one Sono film, check out this flick; you will have then seen them all.

The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis

Merging the sacred and the profane, the bloody and the batty, Love Exposure tunnels into serious topics - warped parenting, sexual intolerance and the way religious cults enslave damaged souls - with a hilariously blasphemous shovel.

NPR by Mark Jenkins

It's a campy rampage that runs a few minutes shy of four hours, dooming what otherwise would likely be a bright future as a midnight movie.

Los Angeles Times by Mark Olsen

The film's maximalist storytelling, both expansive and precise, snatching specific emotions from its torrid swirl, is best exemplified by the fact that the title card doesn't appear until an hour in.

The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw

Deeply strange and politically incorrect, ­baffling, and often funny.

Empire by Phil de Semlyen

Complicated and long but deftly handled adventure/caper/satire that ends up being thoroughly entertaining

The Telegraph by Tim Robey

The movie’s invigorating discourse on sin, lust and love is propelled by a kind of Dionysian glee which keeps it airborne almost constantly.