When it comes to the millennial generation’s defining coming-of-age movies, Clueless has a lot to answer for. And what it says, in its many nipple shots, arse close-ups, and vaginal teases, is that perhaps all sex scenes, no matter how well-intended, or how groundbreaking and profound, are inherently, well, kind of sleazy.Īrchive Photos Getty Images Cruel Intentions (1999) And yet, look at the scene now, within the movie, and away from the hype, and it doesn't play too well. Once the film began sweeping up during the 2013 awards season, however, they recanted and said that they were "happy" with it. The scene has many detractors including the actresses themselves, who famously rounded on their director: Seydoux said making it was "horrible" and she would "never" work with Kechiche again. Looks are exchanged, picnics are arranged, kisses are traded and then everything grinds to a halt at approximately one hour and 11 minutes into the movie, when director Kechiche and his two lead actresses deliver the type of jaw-to-the-floor sex scene that has subsequently raised the movie-sex bar to insane heights of verisimilitude and has pushed the literal definition of "simulated" to breaking point.įor here, over seven long breathy, sweaty, brightly-lit minutes, we run the unapologetic gamut of licking, sucking, squeezing, fingering, rimming, ramming, slamming, and general slithery, grindy, intercrural mayhem. Instead, what it gave us was two young and relatively untested actresses, Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos, deftly describing, in the grim northern French town of Lille, the heady emotional rushes and sudden power shifts of an emerging relationship. So it made the cutesy girl-on-girl action in Bound (2006) and Mulholland Drive (2001) seem dubious and cheap. The hideous rape of Monica Bellucci in Irreversible (2002)? The grimly determined humping from Japanese 1976 classic In the Realm of the Senses? All gone. The film, which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013, wiped away everything that had gone before it. From Swedish nudes in 1953 ( Summer with Monika) to the butter-based penetration of 1972 ( Last Tango in Paris) to crazy irascible beach-side sessions in 1986 ( Betty Blue), nothing screams "art house" more than a smartly directed and gamely acted sex scene.
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