Loss of Sexual Innocence

(Columbia TriStar)

Writer/director Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas) barely prevents loss of attention span with his elliptical collection of cinematic short stories about the ironies, humiliations, and outright tragedies that feast upon innocence, sexual and otherwise. Beaky Julian Sands gives an air of self-absorbed detachment to the central character, whose monotonous prick of a personality is laid bare by Figgis's unswerving voyeurism.