Thanks. I had no clue things had gotten so ugly between the director and Seydoux.
15-minute explicit sex scene in Abdellatif Kechiche’s latest film leads to outcry and walk-outs at Cannes
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Some porns have stepped it up recently in terms of production. Especially lighting.
This is a French production. Not sure how unionised they are (they probably are), but I'm sure rules are different from the US. Also pretty sure the actors and actrices gave consent.
Also, Blue is the Warmest Color had very explicit sex scenes too, but used fake vulva's. I'm thinking this oral scene might also not be as unsimulated as it looks.
This guy directed Blue Is the Warmest Color? Was it really too much to ask for the director of an important, culturally significant film about LGBT youth to not be a fucking pervert? Jesus Christ.
Later Seydoux walked back on those comments a bit though.
I didn't know I wanted this
I should have added the obligatory /s
Lea is in Blue is the warmest color directed by the director your thread is about. Lea is also in Death Stranding. Kojima loves movies. The joke conspiracy theory is that seeing this movie will inspire Kojima to do something with butts like he has in past games except this time it will way out there.
I can’t really say anything before I watch this movie but I really liked the first Mektoub My Love and the reactions were similar but not quite as strong. Kechiche has a way of making dialogue extremely realistic and natural. (If you want to know how people really talk in France just watch his movies). Because he wants his movies to be realistic, he needs to film sex related things with an honest way. When you’re a 20 years old on a summer vacation on the beach, you will look at a lot of bodies. And there will be romantic/sex things happening. I believe that this movie captured what a young guy looks at during summer vacations.
But yes sex is worst than violence in media.
So someone licks a butt for 15 minutes?
I have to admit, Bing search thumbnails already exist for this. We don't need Hollywood to satiate that hunger.
I have to admit, Bing search thumbnails already exist for this. We don't need Hollywood to satiate that hunger.
This sounds absurd lol
I always enjoy professional critics getting baffled by weird films like this.
I wonder what the editing room of this film was. Did the editor only follow the director instructions? What where those instructions? How the hell do you explain the actors this kind of decisions lol
I always enjoy professional critics getting baffled by weird films like this.
I wonder what the editing room of this film was. Did the editor only follow the director instructions? What where those instructions? How the hell do you explain the actors this kind of decisions lol
Okay gotcha. That's okay I guess. I think I have seen unionized actor in those kinds of situation. In those situations, usually in interviews the actors will heavily imply it is not real without giving away trade secrets.
I haven't seen either of these newer films but I really liked BITWC, for more than the sex. I enjoyed for the same things you're describing here, the sense of realism and the natural dialogue. I don't know that I would enjoy these in particular but I do see inherent hypocrisy in the way sex is treated. Of course, if there were 15 min sex scenes in many "normal" films, some films would still be worth watching and not worth watching.
The assault accusationsof against the dude are troubling but I just saw John Wick 3 and it was so freaking gory and no one bats an eye (I still loved it) but people are offended by sex and nudity of adults in a film? This stupid world.
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"In addition, not related with the quality of #mektoublymoveneptermezzo, but I wish good luck to the classification commission, which I'm happy not to be a part of anymore! Don't let Kéchiche make you believe that there were prostheses."
I think if John Wick shot a butt for 15 minutes some people might not enjoy it.
I'll give him credit for the direction of the sex scene in BitWC because the actresses truly looked like cumbersome lovers which is in stark contrast to the "choreography" that most of the population is used to.
However, it was apparent that the scene was being filmed by a male director. It tries to be erotic by basically mimicking modern porn shots.
However, it was apparent that the scene was being filmed by a male director. It tries to be erotic by basically mimicking modern porn shots.
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Oh, ok. I knew about the actors and directors but I didn't get the joke. No problem
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"For you, audience, I counted all the shots that show asses in #MektoubMyLoveIntermezzo: there are 178. If we remove them, I think the film lasts 20 minutes."
"I'm completely overwhelmed after "Maktoub", a vicious and controversial portrait where Kechiche pumps up the speed and derails at the curve of the misogyny, reification and being basically a scoundrel at the camera, without a message. Embarrassing."
"Take notice of the most real, vicious and sickening cunnilingus, with genital shots between drools and moanings that lasts 20 minutes, which leaves you astonished and more shaken than excited. A film in between porn and frenzy, with 2 hours in a disco that only makes you want to leave".
Awesome critic lol
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I'm sorry, you're accusing the Cannes Film Festival of being American??
15 minutes is a long time to watch ANY scene with just two people doing one thing with little/no dialogue in a single location.
The fight between Anakin and Obi-wan in episode 3 was about 12 minutes and that got tedious.
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Agreed. Unfortunately, the film industry had been shunning sexual content for decades, so this type of ironic snobbery is nothing new.
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That's most likely because Abdellatif Kechiche threatened to sue Seydoux if she continued to badmouthed him in public:
"[A] 4-hour movie about butts. it's the same length as Lawrence of Arabia, and literally 60% of the movie is close-ups of butts."
Not to make light of the situation, but they should put that quote on the poster.
Not to make light of the situation, but they should put that quote on the poster.
Hey girl, you wanna have unsimulated relations behind the haberdashery?
I agree haha. Is there some story behind it? who made this gem?
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What do you think the jury members (Alejandro González Iñárritu, Elle Fanning, Yórgos Lánthimos, Enki Bilal, etc.) thought about the movie?
What if they actually give it the Palme d'Or?
What if they actually give it the Palme d'Or?
4 hour butt movie and "extensive sex scene shot by director previously accused of sexual assault and misconduct" are two very, very different headlines
