Review: Donkey Punch

William Goss, Cinematical
Fri, 01/23/2009 - 9:03am

Pleasure and pain -- for any film to evoke either emotion takes a considerable effort, for better or worse, and to extract one sensation out of the other takes a defter touch yet. Olly Blackburn's Donkey Punch starts out with its characters indulging in all manner of proud debauchery, and when they come to bear the consequences of their behavior, their pain becomes our pleasure.

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