Book description
Mike Figgis's Loss of Sexual Innocence is a fascinating fusion of
stories, dreams, images and music. The film is a meditation on the
process of growing up, and the inevitable loss of innocence this
entails. The central image is the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the
Garden of Eden; and as in all of Mike Figgis's work, the focus is upon
the passionate and often troublesome nature of relationships between
men and women. The film was shot in Italy, Tunisia, and Figgis'snative
Newcastle, on the lowest of imaginable budgets. In an introduction to
the screenplay, Figgis describes how he brought off this remarkable task.
