“Calendar Girls” raises a number of interesting issues for the Christian audience. What, for instance, is the relationship between the beauty of the human body and art, and can nudity ever be artistic? The issue in the latter question is whether or not the images inflame lust — a charge that is creatively diminished in this film because of the age of the models (40s–60s). The most objectionable elements of the film are not the calendar or the nude photo shoots, which cleverly obscure the bodies. A brief shot of a pornographic magazine and some bad language are what prevent Dove from awarding the Dove Seal to “Calendar Girls.”
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