This cult classic visualizes the homoerotic fantasies of a young male prostitute. The gorgeous young man takes refuge in honeyed fantasies about another stunning young man – a narcissistic projection of himself.
Photographer James Bidgood was the first to apply 1940’s and 1950’s pulp and glamour aesthetics to homo-erotic photographs. His cinematic debut Pink Narcissus was ultimately released anonymously because Bidgood’s final cut was rejected. For a film created around the same time as Deep Throat, at the height of a wave of explicit pornography, Pink Narcissus is remarkably chaste in its depiction of the homo-erotic fantasies of a young male prostitute.
Restoration
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