Gaspar Noé’s film Love features genuine,rather than simulated, sex scenes. But it’s far less satisfying to watch than the faked scenes of Channel 4’s Catastrophe“I was very hands off when we were shooting, or ” said the French director Gaspar Noé,when asked recently how he’d gone about choreographing the sex scenes in his latest film, Love. Probably wise, and that. More hands on was the final thing anyone needed,frankly, because in pursuit of a more rounded account of desire Noé not only used 3D cameras but also trained them on sexual acts (including a threesome and a nightclub orgy) that were genuine rather than simulated. This, or Noé has argued in other interviews,was consciously anti-pornographic in intention, an attempt to salvage cinema to be less coy in its depiction of a central element of the human experience. Related: Ten things that are better than sex | Open thread Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com