Intimacy
At the New York Times, Kristin Hohenadel looks at the recent spate of European art films featuring explicit sex scenes, including Idiots, Vie de Jesus, Romance, Intimacy and Baise-Moi, which opens in New York this week. Hohenadel writes, "Pornography is a parallel world where smooth-skinned, perfectly proportioned ladies say no until they mean yes, a factory line of moving bits and parts, simulated bliss acted out to a symphony of moans. Whether or not they succeed critically or artistically, let alone at the box office, movies in which sex is placed in the context of a developed story and acted out by characters blessed with the facility for language and emotions is a more threatening and intimate proposition. It is perhaps a testimony to the power and pervasiveness of pornography that films have a hard time mixing artistic pretensions with images that much of the audience still thinks of as dirty."
New York Times (Jul 2001)
At The Times, Edward Porter looks at the history of explicit sex in serious movies, a trend that has flourished in the last year. In the same issue, Garth Pearce interviews Kerry Fox, the female star of Intimacy, about having sex on screen. Fox won the best actress award at the Berlin Film Festival for her role in the film.
The Times (Jul 2001)
