Moonlight Whispers

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Summary: Love and Dominance
Review: Takuya loves Satsuki and Satsuki loves Takuya-at least until she finds out that that what Takuya really loves is being dominated and abused by her. Moonlight whispers lies somewhere between THE PIANO TEACHER and SECRETARY as a thoughtful look at how a relationship based on domination can develop between two people, but it is presented in a manner unlike the two films I just mentioned. All three share a wide eyed fascination with the subject, but where SECRETARY approaches it with humor and THE PIANO TEACHER with horror, MOONLIGHT WHISPERS is out to tell a genuine love story. It helps that the two characters are high school students who appear almost entirely innocent about the subject of love at the beginning of the film. The blurb on the box says that watching MOONLIGHT WHISPERS is like watching a very kinky episode of "Dawson's Creek". And it's right, only I'd hasten to add that the film is better written and acted than the sitcom. Not that I ever watched that show. Ever. I first saw this film at the New York S&M Film Festival (I was there for the films, not the S&M, thank you) and despite containing very little of what we generally think of as S&M, it was an audience favorite. It's worth your attention.