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Flesh

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A gay heroin junkie works as a male prostitute to support his, his lesbian wife's and her lover's addiction.

Critics Reviews

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Peter Aspden Financial Times 10/07/2018
Flesh is strikingly redolent of its time: morally vacant, stylish, lightweight, daring, but also dreary. It represents everything people both love and hate about the 1960s. Go to Full Review
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times 10/23/2004
2.5/4
It's at least interesting. It isn't very good, though; if it hadn't come from New York under Warhol's sponsorship, we'd never have seen it. Go to Full Review
Cole Smithey ColeSmithey.com 04/06/2008
4/5
Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews 11/23/2006
A-
Flesh offers a funny look at the underbelly of the city. Go to Full Review
Rich Cline Shadows on the Wall 08/26/2005
3.5/5
The way Morrissey keeps things natural and real is both bracing and important Go to Full Review
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com 06/13/2005
4/5
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Audience Reviews

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05/27/2021 Quite an interesting topic, bit taboo but married man runs tricks predominantly for men to help pay the way for his new wife. Sex life with his wife is a bit exhausted by his ventures. Best scene is with a creepy sculptor old dude. Would have been a decent film if it wasn't so boring . See more 02/03/2016 The first in the Warhol/Morrissey trilogy, Flesh is an avant-garde film typical of the Warhol effort featuring Warhol superstar Joe Dallesandro, the plot was about a hustler's mundane day, like the protagonist, I fell asleep. See more 08/19/2015 Another Paul Morrissey film. I could rate these types of films forever cause the memory is so sweet! Loved it. ð??? See more 12/13/2014 ***Due to the recent RT changes that have basically ruined my past reviews, I am mostly only giving a rating rather than a full review.*** See more 10/30/2014 An from head to tail obsession about Joe Dallesandro. See more 06/24/2014 This had some incredible things to say about the oversexualization of the human body, both male and female, and the effect on the objectified because of that. Unfortunately, the production value was so dreadfully bad it dragged the whole thing down. See more Read all reviews
Flesh

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Movie Info

Synopsis A gay heroin junkie works as a male prostitute to support his, his lesbian wife's and her lover's addiction.
Director
Paul Morrissey
Producer
Andy Warhol
Screenwriter
Paul Morrissey
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Sep 26, 1968, Original
Release Date (DVD)
Oct 18, 2005
Runtime
1h 45m