Kissed is a 1996 Canadian film, directed and co-written by Lynne Stopkewich, based on Barbara Gowdy's short story "We So Seldom Look On Love". It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 7th, 1996. The film stars Molly Parker as Sandra Larson, a young woman whose fixation on death leads her to study embalming at a mortuary school, where in turn she finds herself drawn toward feelings of necrophilia. Peter Outerbridge also stars as Matt, a fellow student who develops romantic feelings for Sandra, and so must learn to accept her sexual proclivities. Despite being... allowed a substantial grant, Stopkewich went almost $30,000 into debt and cost her company $400,000 so she could complete shooting the film. The film opens with Sandra Larson staring at a human corpse while she reminisces about at her childhood fascinations with death. As a young teen Sandra was enthralled by the feelings invoked by the stillness and smell of death. At night, a near nude Sandra would dance with the corpse of an animal rubbing it on her body, before giving the animal a funeral.
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| Release date: | April 11, 1997 |
| Directed by: | Lynne Stopkewich |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 88 Minutes |
| Producer: | Dean English, Lynne Stopkewich |
| Editor: | John Pozer, Peter Roeck, Lynne Stopkewich |
| Music by: | Don Macdonald |
| Cinematography: | Gregory Middleton |
| Screenplay by: | Angus Fraser, Lynne Stopkewich |
| Adapted from: | We so seldom look on love |