Mia Goth and Alexander Skarsgard put on an animated display at the Infinity Pool photocall during the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival on Wednesday.
Infinity Pool has left critics aghast with its scenes of executions, orgies and full-frontal nudity in first reviews of the shocking horror film.
Mia, 29, showed off her incredible figure in a white skin-tight dress, teamed with a pair of black stilettos.
The Pearl star opted for a soft glam makeup look as she posed for snaps at the event which was held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel.
Meanwhile Alexander, 46, looked dapper in an all black ensemble which consisted of a blazer, t-shirt and trousers.
Pals: Mia Goth and Alexander Skarsgard put on an animated display at the Infinity Pool photocall during the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival on Wednesday
Stunning: Mia, 29, showed off her incredible figure in a white skin-tight dress, teamed with a pair of black stilettos
The pair were also joined at the photocall by the film’s director Brandon Croenenberg and actor Jalil Lespert.
The film follows writer James Foster (Skarsgard) and Em Foster (Cleopatra Coleman), a couple enjoying an all-inclusive beach vacation in the fictional island of La Tolqa, when a fatal accident exposes the resort’s perverse subculture of hedonistic tourism, violence and surreal horrors.
In one of the film’s most shocking scenes, MIa, who plays free-spirited tourist and actress Gabi, performs a sex act on Alexander’s Foster, with the writer ejaculating and his manhood fully shown on screen.
Other gory scenes show a clone of Alexander being disemboweled and orgies – with the R-rated film branded ‘The White Lotus – but for sickos’ upon its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.
Alexander said himself of the role: ‘Fighting a naked version of myself to the death and then being breastfed by Mia … that’s not something you get to do very often as an actor.’
IndieWire critic Ryan Lattanzio praised the ‘terrifically unhinged’ performances of the leads but said ‘the whole thing feels bloodless, cold and clammy as a speculum.
‘Despite the pile-up of blood, guts, holes, and d**ks in a hallucinogenic montage that punctures Infinity Pool’s otherwise weirdly sleepy atmosphere, the film is never as appalling as it seems to confidently believe it is.
‘There’s a psychedelic orgy montage suffused with all manner of body parts, James and Gabi high out of their skulls on some kind of religious drug and pounding each other in ecstasy, that feels very similar to the one in Possessor where Andrea Riseborough suddenly had a penis.
‘This is likely one of the moments that originally got Infinity Pool its justifiable NC-17 rating.’
On October 19, Bloody Disgusting reported that Infinity Pool was edited from an NC-17 film to a hard R-rated film.
Cronenberg is the son of iconic body horror director David Cronenberg, known for classic films such as The Fly and The Dead Zone.
Gorgeous: The Pearl star opted for a soft glam makeup look as she posed for snaps at the event which was held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel
Looking good: Alexander, 46, looked dapper in an all black ensemble which consisted of a blazer, t-shirt and trousers
Bold: Infinity Pool has left critics aghast with its scenes of executions, orgies and full-frontal nudity in first reviews of the shocking horror film
Plot: In one of the film’s most shocking scenes, MIa, who plays free-spirited tourist and actress Gabi, performs a sex act on Alexander’s Foster, with the writer ejaculating and his manhood fully shown on screen
Mia, who is being highly praised for her performance in recent horror productions such as Pearl and X: The Mark of Death, is the granddaughter of actress Maria Gladys.
She recently stated in an interview that her grandmother was her biggest inspiration. She said: ‘My grandma, my Brazilian grandmother, who is also an actress in Brazil.
‘She has an incredible life, has gone through a lot and has always encouraged me to expand my universe to the fullest. I think she is incredible’.
Infinity Pool was released in cinemas worldwide on January 27, 2023.
Team: The pair were also joined at the photocall by the film’s director Brandon Croenenberg and actor Jalil Lespert
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