Argentinian director Gaspar Noe's melodrama Love 3D has been banned by officials in Russia over its "pornographic" scenes.
Noe debuted the movie at the Cannes Film Festival in France earlier this year before it played as part of the New Zealand International Film Festival, and it was scheduled to hit cinemas in Russia in the autumn.
Read the 3 News review of Love 3D here.
The film, which centres on a young student who cheats on his girlfriend with, was denied an exhibition licence by officials at Russia's culture ministry,
A statement from the department chiefs reads: "The decision is based on the fact that the film contains numerous pornographic scenes."
Reports suggest the censors asked for a thorough edit, but were not satisfied with the "softer" version of the movie, even though it had less sexual content than the one screened at Cannes.
However, Love 3D did have a late-night screening in Moscow in June, which drew a surprisingly large crowd, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
This isn't Noe's first brush with movie scandal - many critics found his 2002 film Irreversible tough to watch because of a graphic rape scene featuring actress Monica Bellucci, among other brutally violent scenes.
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