One director who uses real, unsimulated sex scenes in his controversial movies has explained that they’re fundamentally different from porn because they’re “not dirty”.
That director is Gaspar Noé, who made 2015 film Love and 2002’s Irreversible, both of which feature actors taking part in real sex acts on screen. Love follows an American man, Murphy, who becomes entwined in a highly sexed romance while in Paris. Things soon lead to a threesome with a broken condom – and a pregnancy that throws a spanner in the works.
Irreversible, meanwhile, follows a young woman who is raped by a stranger while walking through a tunnel, as her boyfriend and ex team up to wreak revenge on the perpetrator. Both films featured the actors performing real sex.
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But for Noé’s film Love, he says the actors knew what to expect ahead of time. He told the Irish Examiner: “The good thing about this movie is all the people I proposed to be on-screen knew my previous movies and knew we were doing something valuable, a real movie about a real subject — love — and not something dirty.”
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He went on to clarify: “In what you call ‘adult movies’ there are no feelings at all. You never see people kissing or talking about pregnancy. You never see any girl having her periods and you never see a girl with regular pubic hair. It’s like a separate world that has nothing to do with normal life.
“What I wanted to do is represent in cinema something that’s important for me that for commercial reasons isn’t represented properly. The system of cinema rating is totally old-fashioned.”
Noé claimed in 2015 he’s never watched porn online, and prefers erotic VHS videos. He explained: “I used to enjoy it on VHS. I also enjoyed it on DVD. But I relate to VHS more. I’ve never consumed porn on the internet.
“I like erotica and the pornography of that period much more than the ones from nowadays that I don’t relate to because the girls are shaven and the guys are all bodybuilders. The energy is inhuman.”
The raunchy film was supposed to be “fun” – and in certain 3D screenings, he featured a spray directed at the audience when one character ejaculated straight at the camera lens. IndieWire reviewer Eric Kohn, however, wasn’t impressed with the “gimmick”.
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He wrote: “Both eager to please and relentlessly underwhelming, Love doesn’t even manage to do much with the 3D gimmick that boosted its profile long before its completion. Noé exploits the device just once with the inevitable money shot of a larger-than-life penis blowing its load straight at the lens.”
One reviewer for Screen International branded the film “chill-out porn”, while HitFitx’s Gregory Ellwood wrote: “The gratuitous sex may eventually start to bore many viewers.”
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