Sunday, May 21, 2006

US Real Sex Film Debuts at Cannes

The opening sequence prepares audiences for what is to come, with three different sex scenes.

One features a young man performing oral sex on himself in front of a camera, another a young man masturbating as he is whipped by a dominatrix and the third a couple having acrobatic sex in their apartment.

Mitchell succeeds in making the on-screen action less shocking than it sounds, and rather than gasps from the audience at a press screening, there was laughter at the comedy.

"This film was not pornographic," Mitchell told reporters on Saturday. "I don't think anyone got a hard-on watching this film."

Mitchell's previous film was "Hedwig and the Angry Inch", a rights-of-passage film that gained the 43-year-old director a cult following in the United States.
Film Makes Political Statement
US film featuring actors performing real sex is a "call to arms" against President George W. Bush, the director told journalists at the Cannes film festival.

"Shortbus," an explicit, largely improvised arthouse flick that includes a rendition of the American national anthem during a gay sex scene, is a direct provocation, director John Cameron Mitchell admitted.

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