THE CLUB (2015)

THE CLUB (2015)

Type Feature

Approx. Running minutes 96

Release dates 25/03/2016

BBFCInsight very strong verbal references to child sexual abuse

Genre(s) Drama

Director(s) Pablo Larraín

Cast includes Roberto Farías, Antonia Zegers, Alfredo Castro, Alejandro Goic, Alejandro Sieveking, Jaime Vadell, Marcelo Alonso

Summary THE CLUB is a Chilean drama about a psychologist who is sent to provide counselling after a shocking incident at a retirement home for priests.

Cut All known versions of this work passed uncut.

18
ECI information

BBFCinsight publication date 15/03/2016

Note: The following text may contain spoilers

THE CLUB is a Chilean drama about a psychologist who is sent to provide counselling after a shocking incident at a retirement home for priests.

Theme: Very strong verbal references to child sexual abuse occur throughout, although there are no visual depictions of the abuse. The references come from a man detailing how he was sexually abused by priests when he was a child. In one case, he shouts for several minutes outside the priests' house, including detail about the priests masturbating and ejaculating onto him and into his mouth, and how their semen tasted. Similar references are repeated later in the film. There is also a scene in which the man is shown having sex with a female prostitute, whom he asks to anally penetrate him in a re-enactment of some of the abuse he suffered.

Further issues include strong violence, including the suicide of a man who shoots himself in the head, and strong language, including 'f**k' and 'motherf**ker'.