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The Loss of Sexual Innocence
Prebook 10/26/99; Street 11/16/99 Columbia TriStar, Drama, VHS Price NA, $27.95 DVD,'R,' 101 min. Stars Julian Sands, Johanna Tore, Saffron Burrows, Kelly Macdonald.
A scattered collection of scenes without narrative focus, The Loss of Sexual Innocence is a stylistic experiment that doesn't quite live up to the sum of its parts.
Forgoing such old-fashioned devices as a plot, Loss instead presents us with loosely connected impressionist sequences, each of which illustrates the titular theme.
The film unwinds into separate threads: a woman (Burrows) finds her twin years after they had been separated at birth, thus losing...