Not exact matches
For a moment, let's just set aside all the controversy surrounding this year's Palme d'Or winning film — whether it's the
graphic sex scenes, or the allegations of emotional abuse of lead actresses Léa Seydoux, Adèle Exarchopoulos and crew members by their director Abdellatif Kechiche — and consider that this just looks
like a damn good love story.
That doesn't sound
like much but it does include a surprisingly
graphic look at the shadowy, pivotal (supposedly simulated) fellatio
scene and more to a couple of Ryan / Ruffalo
sex scenes.
«Mektoub My Love: Canto Uno» premiered at the Venice Film Festival earlier today and, just
like Kechiche's previous feature, it's already courting controversy over its
graphic sex scenes and male gaze.
Exarchopolous, feeling
like she's come from nowhere, is in every single
scene, the unflinching center of our attention and identification throughout, and Kechiche weaves the film around her so unobtrusively that you almost don't feel his presence (except possibly in the film's laudably
graphic but nonetheless overlong first lesbian
sex scene)-- surely a mark of an exceptional skill.
Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy «s film is undoubtedly a difficult watch, featuring an abortion, some
graphic scenes of
sex and bloody violence, and the eerie quietness in which it's all carried out is less a comment on deafness than a clever way of making us examine the idea of a closed system which, «Lord of the Flies «-
like, refers only to itself.
I didn't
like the sudden,
graphic sex scenes that did nothing to further the plot and only seemed to exist to shock the reader.