OTHER REAL SEX MOVIES?
Not porn.
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Fingered (1986 Short Film)
The French keep TRYING to do this ("Baise Moi", "Sexual Chronicles of a French Family"), but it doesn't seem to work well. Your best male actors aren't necessarily able to have sex in public and a lot of the guys that can have all the raw acting talent of Ron Jeremy or James Deen.
A lot of young American actresses meanwhile make a big frickin' deal of doing nude scenes, let alone porn, but even the best French and European actresses have stayed well away from on-screen sex. Chloe Sevigny probably hasn't helped this cause by doing what she did in such a godawful movie.
Actually, the most interesting example is Asia Argento with "Scarlet Diva", who claimed that she and her actors had real sex even though she didn't verify this by showing the penetration. Strangely, the movie was also produced by her own uncle and co-starred her own mother. . .
Blue is the Warmest Color
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Bruce Dern said publicly that he really went all the way with Maud Adams to Maud's dismay. At the time there was real anger expressed by Maud and I think it affected her career in Hollywood.
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My favorite: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Love, by Gaspar Noé
Devil in the Flesh, with Maruschka Detmers
Nymphomaniac, by Lars von Trier
I think that when you resort to explicit sex, you've lost all purpose in cinema as art, whatever you pretended to do.
If you can't evoke sexual passion without showing it, you're a failure.
As Tarkovsky said about sexual love in his movies (namely Mirror, Nostalgia and Sacrifice): "I make movies that a four year old can watch but only grown ups will understand." He was the artist.
Mankind was born on Earth. It was never meant to watch Interstellar.
Ken Park
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