/ 18 July 2005

Australian loses nose in film fracas

An Australian teenager has had his nose bitten off in a violent argument over the merits of blood-and-guts feature film Sin City, news reports said on Monday.

The 19-year-old was outside a cinema in Bathurst at the weekend when he got into a fight with another man over the quality of a film that some say has set new standards for violence and depravity.

The victim was taken to a local hospital before being transferred the 200km to Sydney’s Westmead Hospital where surgery was performed to re-attach the nose, the Australian news agency AAP reported.

Sin City is just that: a montage of scenes showing denizens of a mythical metropolis engaged in castration, murder, torture, decapitation and fornication. – Sapa-DPA