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The Slut: Cannes Review

2:30 PM PDT 5/13/2011 by Todd McCarthy

Director Hagar Ben Asher may be the first female director of a legitimate feature to film herself performing in a hardcore sex scene.

CANNES -- Is Hagar Ben Asher the first female director of a legitimate feature to film herself performing in a hardcore sex scene? Encyclopedists of sex in the cinema will have to answer that one, but the heavy sexual element is all that is notable about the forthrightly titled The Slut, a slow-going, rather pointless Israeli drama about an attractive rural woman who just gotta have it. Notoriety of its title and content will attract some attention on the festival circuit and no doubt in Israel, but audiences will have that empty feeling afterwards.

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