Nudity from Emily Willis and Karrueche Tran in Divinity (2023)

The typical response when this was screened at Sundance was “Da Fuck?”

The review on The Playlist sums it up perfectly:

“You Have to See It to Believe It” is a well-worn movie cliché, but trust that it applies to this utterly bananas corporeal bath of cinema in all its glorious sound and vision. As the film ratchets up to its batshit, gnarly, and beautifully mutilated conclusion, man, prepare yourself for how transgressive and hypnagogic it gets.

That reviewer meant his review to be complimentary. Your mileage may vary. Many people loved it. Many people thought it felt like an film from the New York underground in the late 60s. Others just scratched their heads in confusion.

Other reviewers noted:

• “boldly demented”
• “shallow and silly pseudo-experimental sci-fi, made by those assured that they were making something edgy and interesting”
• “an unintentionally comical sci-fi diatribe obsessed with beautiful bodies, bickering brothers and biblical symbolism.”
• “If you wish you lived in a parallel universe where in the early 1990s, Paul Verhoeven had smoked a lot of weed, then made a low-budget black and white mashup of Eraserhead, Crimes of the Future (1970), and How to Talk to Girls at Parties, Divinity will likely be your dream made flesh, (albeit) lumpy, misshapen flesh, covered in grotesque goo.”

If you want to watch it purely for the nudity, the film is a nightmare because of all the rapid jump cuts. You might have to watch a five minute clip where there is some one-second nudity in second 6, second 110, second 225 and second 280, but nowhere else. Even the main sex scene with Emily Willis takes about three minutes of screen time for some 20 seconds of nudity, interspersed with various moments of weirdness. Even if you stick with it, the film jumps around so much that you won’t enjoy the nudity without the pause button.

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