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Film 'as vile as you can imagine'

Can any film be so shocking that it can be deemed unclassifiable? The release of Antichrist, which features genital self-mutilation among other shocking scenes, has been deemed suitable for 18-year-olds. David Cooke, director of the British Board of Film Classification, and Sunday Times journalist Bryan Appleyard, discuss what it would take for a film to be unclassifiable.

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