No Skin Off My Ass (1993)

Director:

Bruce La Bruce

Writer:

Bruce La Bruce (writer)

Release Date:

19 August 1998 (France)

Genre:

Adult | Drama

Tagline:

being a fag is a definite plus

Plot:

A lonely hairdresser watches the title sequence of "That Cold Day in the Park" then visits a local park...

Plot Keywords:

Skinhead | Hairdresser | Park | Bath | Screen Test

Cast

Bruce La Bruce	...	The Hairdresser
G.B. Jones
Caroline Azar
Laurel Purvis
Kate Ashley
Nicholas Davies
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jena von Brucker
Klaus von Buecker	...	The Skinhead

Directed by
Bruce La Bruce

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Bruce La Bruce		writer

Produced by
Jürgen Brüning	....	producer

Cinematography by
G.B. Jones		(co-cinematographer)
Bruce La Bruce		(co-cinematographer)

Film Editing by
Bruce La Bruce

Production Companies

• Gaytown Pictures (presents)
• New Lavender Panthers, The (in association with)
• Jürgen Brüning Filmproduktion

Distributors

• Kojo Pictures (2008) (Australia) (DVD)
• Salzgeber & Company Medien (Germany)
• Strand Releasing

Also Known As:

"No Skin Off My Ass" - France

Runtime:

USA:73 min

Country:

Canada

Language:

English | German

Color:

Black and White

Certification:

Hong Kong:III | Australia:R (2008) | Australia:R | France:-16 (with warning) | UK:18 | USA:X

Filming Locations:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Company:

Gaytown Pictures

Trivia:

Singer and songwriter Kurt Cobain declared it his favorite film.

Movie Connections:

Remake of That Cold Day in the Park (1969)

Gives Art Cinema a Bad Name

Well, in our Film Directors: Gus Van Sant class the other day, we were subjected to "No Skin off My Ass" (Don't tell me why -- our professor seemed to think that there was Van Santian qualities to the film. Aside from the homosexuality, I'm not seeing it). What I can tell you is that I don't know if I've ever been so ashamed of being a film student. Apparently, if you're obnoxious and pretentious enough to make a (pun extremely well intended) masturbatory film such as this, you can have some professor somewhere like it and subject a class to it.

"No Skin Off My Ass" shouldn't be regarded as a movie -- it's a pet project taken entirely too far, and if it were accepted as just that, I wouldn't be rattled. However it's that "oh look how different! oh look how risky!" attitude that makes credible pictures lose their credibility.

For instance, earlier this year, Bernardo Bertulucci had some characters running around perpetually naked in "The Dreamers". There were other elements to the film, though, and he wasn't just showing naked people for the sake of showing naked people.

Bruce La Bruce's film is a mockery of the word -- it seems like he may have just made it to get intimate with Von Buecker, and then later felt a need to put a story together in order to hide his selfish ways.

I almost urge people to see this just to understand where these thoughts and comments come from, but I know that unless you were in a classroom setting, you wouldn't be able to take more than 10 minutes without saying "I'm not watching that. It's wasting my time."