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| "Blue is the Warmest Colour," a French coming-of-age-story (Sundance Selects) |
Sex on screen: No longer taboo?
The recent cinema movies "Blue is the Warmest Colour" and "Nymphomaniac" have attracted attention for
their graphic sexual content. Is this explicit trend more than skin
deep?
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| Troubled, sure, but smarter than us. |
The most talked-about eight minutes in cinema last year [2013] were in the
French film, "Blue is the Warmest Colour." The movie’s graphic lesbian sex
scene was so explicit and prolonged -- frankly, it looked exhausting --
that Abdellatif Kechiche’s three-hour coming-of-age drama could have
been dismissed as pornography.
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| It's out of control (Bjork) |
And yet, while there was much debate
concerning the
morality of a 52-year-old male director telling
two naked
young actresses [Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos] to contort themselves into human reef knots, the film
won the Palme d’Or ["Golden Palm"] at the Cannes Film Festival and went onto garner
rave reviews. Most critics accepted that "Blue is the Warmest Colour"
wasn’t a blue movie -- but an honest, unflinching portrayal of first
love.
It wasn’t a one-off, either. When you scan the list of 2013’s films, you
could be forgiven for thinking that today’s directors have sex on the
brain....
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| Lust is a terrible thing ("Mondo Amore" Williams/laluzdejesus.com). |
Michael Winterbottom and Steve Coogan made "The
Look of Love," a biopic of Paul Raymond, one of Britain’s wealthiest
strip-club proprietors and pornographers.
Another biopic, "Lovelace,"
featured Amanda Seyfried as the star of the revolutionary 1970s hardcore
hit, "
Deep Throat." And Joseph Gordon-Levitt, last seen in "Looper"... chose a different kind of film for his debut as a
writer-director. In "Don Jon," he played a New Jersey bartender who
watched
porn on his computer several times a day, despite having
Scarlett Johansson (another Avengers star) as his girlfriend.
More
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- Feb. 2, L.A., USA
- Jan. 25-Feb. 2, Argentina
- Jan. 30-Feb. 2, New Delhi, India
- , Jan. 22-Feb. 2, Salzburg, Austria
- , Jan. 16-Jan. 26, Utah, United States
- VIDEO: Best of 2013 clips
Gwyneth Paltrow [America's most hated celebrity] and Mark Ruffalo...appeared in "Thanks for Sharing," a drama about a support
group for sex addicts. 
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