Timeout London  Make the most of your city   A Serbian Film (18)
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Out says  Tue Dec 7 2010  A newborn baby, fresh from its
mother’s womb, is raped; a woman’s head is cut off by a machete-
wielding man as he fucks her brutally from behind; a man is
raped to death using his empty eye socket. Despite the BBFC’s 49
cuts, which removed a record four minutes and 12 seconds of
footage, the essence of director Srdan Spasojevic’s reductive
‘vision’ remains. These therapeutically appalling images are, he
claims, an allegorical attack on the rape of Serbian artists’
minds by the ‘cinematic fascists of political correctness.’ But
as ex-porn star Milos (Srdjan Todorovic) is cajoled, drugged and
beaten into ever more depraved acts by sleazy ‘art porn’
producer Vukmir (Sergej Trifunovic), this critique is lost amid
a sordid welter of sexual sadism, incestuous necrophilia and
‘snuff movie’ nihilism. If