Directed by Stephen Sayadian
In the future, humans are divided into Sex Negatives and Sex Positives. The Negatives get sick if they have sex, so every night they go to Café Flesh to see Positives who are forced to perform on stage for their entertainment.
Cafe Flesh, Orgasmos Insaciables, Café Porno, Кафе 'Плоть', 愛の終焉／カフェ・フレッシュ, 肉欲咖啡馆, Кафе «Плоть», 肉欲咖啡館, Gozos Atômicos, 肉慾咖啡館
France L'Étrange Festival 
Switzerland Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival 
USA 
Uruguay 
Argentina Argentina France Switzerland USA Uruguay 
saw this last night with aidan and sean pw but we were late coz uber got stuck behind horse
I mean. Probably my favorite piece of pornographic art ever made? I don’t even know how to log this one. I feel like I just saw color for the first time. Some of the most beautiful and surreal images I’ve ever seen in any film. A giant rat man 69s a girl in front of a bunch of screaming manbabies…that soundtrack…the performances…I’ll have more to say the next time I watch this and I will be rewatching this movie (and probably ripping it off) for the rest of my life.
This is one of the only porn movies to achieve notable crossover success as a midnight movie, and I can see why. It’s full of bizarre visual ideas, is quite downbeat on the whole idea of porn, and it’s hard to imagine anyone jerking off to, although I’m sure plenty of video renters found a way.
In the future, a nuclear apocalypse has rendered 99% of humanity incapable of sex. The remaining 1% are mandated to perform in bizarre live sex shows. How bizarre? Well, there’s this one office-themed dance/sex number where a bunch of guys are dressed as pencils and a woman keeps droning “Should I take a memo?” Not sure I’m getting the full effect across - there’s…
80s art house porn on a Monday morning
The new 4K restoration looks stupendous. Hopefully the time and resources devoted to this can inspire similar valiant preservation efforts for other essential texts from this genre, such as Marilyn Chambers' Private Fantasies Vol. 4, Marilyn Chambers' Private Fantasies Vol. 6, and - of course - Marilyn Chambers' Private Fantasies Vol. 5.
I miss the days when the porn industry attracted weirdo artists who couldn't find work in Hollywood.
A giant pencil has sex in an office. Lots to think about.
Café Flesh is gloriously stylized, often campy, science fiction pornography, set in a world in which the "Nuclear Kiss" has rendered 99% of humanity "Negatives", are unable to engage in physical intimacy without violent illness. The other 1%, who can bang until the cows come home (they're called "Positives"), are compelled to perform in sex clubs for the Negatives, offering catharsis-cum-torture for the those now allergic to doing anything other than watch.
The lore is murky and inconsistent, but that's very nearly irrelevant, because it's director Stephen Sayadian's — AKA Rinse Dream — visuals that are paramount. This is a movie made by a man who seems far more interested in his art than he is in the hardcore sex,…
“sex positives”….. can’t believe they’re still using therapyspeak in the future
new restoration-in-progress looks beautiful — hope they’re able to find another source to fill in all of the missing frames (including the couple of nasty ones right at the end)
This is one of those artistic smuts that's trying to say something about society and the human condition, but with lots of cunnilingus and a woman 69ing with a guy dressed up as a giant rat.
a post-apocalyptic Cabaret for perverts that finds Sayadian in welcome territory, merging art-theater histrionics with kinky smut that runs the gamut from routine money shots to people fucking in bizarre costumes like a dude dressed as a pencil in the opening few minutes — less of a bonafide porn film than it is an unabashedly explicit art/genre film ala Thundercrack!
Watched this with my mom.
