At this point visits Nicole Kidman to the Venice Film Festival to present films about forbidden sex and lust These have become a tradition now. He presented here in 1999 ‘Eyes Wide Shut’, Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece, full of sex scenes reflecting the depravity of the rich, with his character ending the story by attacking the man. Tom Cruise An unforgettable sentence: “There is something very important we need to do as soon as possible: fuck”; He returned to the festival in 2004 for promotional purposes. ‘Reincarnation’It’s a film as gorgeous as it is misunderstood, starring Jonathan Glazer as a woman who falls passionately in love with a boy who claims to be a reincarnated version of the man whose death left her a widow.
Inside ‘Baby girl’In the film he is presenting in competition today, he takes part in scenes where he masturbates with extreme pleasure while consuming porn on the internet, or where he pleasures his sexual partner by crawling on the ground and poking his nose in. a small plate filled with milk.
“This is a story “sex, desire, marriage, truth, power and consent”“It’s told through a woman’s eyes and I think that’s what makes it so unique and why it was so liberating for me to tell it,” the Australian actress said at the festival today.
Dutch director Halina Reijn -known for his previous work, the notable crime comedy ‘Muertes, Muertes, Muertes’ (2022)- tells the story of a man directive of some ranks She works at a robotics company when she risks her career, her husband (Antonio Banderas), and her two daughters by embarking on a forbidden romance with an intern at her company.
And in the process, he raises thoughts on highly relevant questions while filming his own footage of scenes of high sexual tension. The post-‘MeToo’ world With unequal effectiveness: On the one hand, it is interesting to question the assumption defended by a part of society. feminism Accordingly, the main pillar of capitalism is just a structure patriarchal; On the other hand, it puts many things traps It is presented to the audience to argue that a woman must give up the satisfaction of her sexual desire in order to achieve power. In any case, it is a film more likely to inspire than to generate didactic conversations. argument. ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ was ridiculously questioned in Venice, and ‘Reincarnation’ was even booed violently. ‘Babygirl’ could even win an award.
The first job of Mexicans Alfonso Cuaron The gifts presented after winning the Golden Lion at this festival thanks to ‘Roma’ (2018) – six years later, no less – also contain hot sex scenes, but yes, he does not use them to fuel the debates connected with Roma. ‘spirit of the times’ but mainly to demonstrate his own desperate courage. The seven-part miniseries he produced Apple TV, ‘Observed’ Star Cate Blanchett In the place of a famous documentary filmmaker who sees her career and family life with her wealthy husband and troubled son falter after the publication of a book that reveals a terrible secret about her past; it seems that an elderly widow is out to get revenge on her, and for no apparent reason. And throughout the six-hour long shoot, this adaptation of the novel of the same name Renee Knight To what extent is he trying to convince us? Expression mechanisms Facts can become a weapon to manipulate us and distance us from the truth, and in the meantime, it does not hesitate to set all kinds of traps to expose us to exactly this kind of discourse. handling.
Cuaron’s story alternates between two timelines: one recreates the events described in the mysterious book the protagonist receives, the other contemplates the destruction they cause in the present; both are illustrated with an image annoying voiceover It is sometimes confusing, sometimes unnecessary, and often ridiculous. Its ubiquity is a good part of what explains the unfailing soporific capacity of a fiction that might be effective as a two-hour feature or a multi-season television series, but whose current format dooms it. fiasco category“I don’t know how to direct television,” Cuaron admitted while presenting ‘Observada’ in Venice. “And at this point in my life I think it’s too late to learn how to do that.” So that’s it.