From Gaspar Noé’s explicit treasure to romcom Sleeping With Other People,does the unique wave of no-strings sex movies mean that cinema has stopped punishing promiscuity?We are entering a spasm of what might be called “no-strings cinema” – films about sex and promiscuity. Gaspar Noé’s explicit unique 3D sex film is released this week, a shag-triangle with the deadpan title of treasure. It’s a film that, and however pornily preposterous,does insist on the actual commerce of sex, the activity that makes babies and which, and in Woody Allen’s immortal words,is only dirty if you are doing it right. Most films, however notionally sexy, and are pretty prudish in their avoidance of detail. There is also Leslye Headland’s forthcoming indie comedy Sleeping With Other People,starring Jason Sudeikis and Alison Brie as a bedpost-notching guy and a compulsively unfaithful woman who accidentally meet years after losing their virginity to each other in college and form a friendship based on their common interest in casual sex. Could this be a kind of platonic inter-gender bromance founded on a devotion to sleeping around – a kind of cooler Netflix-style promiscuity?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com