Sex, Cannes & Videotape

Something is afoot in at the Cannes festival this year. And that something is sex. More specifically, it's sex produced by Mexican and Canadian film-makers. Our very own Atom Egoyan is getting a bit of heat for the Kevin Bacon/Colin Firth/Young College Student threesome (puts a spin on the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon) that goes down in his film Where the Truth Lies, which some critics are calling gratuitous.

Same goes for Mexican director Carlos Reygadas, whose film Battle in Heaven features some explicit sex between a portly older man and a young woman and and then the same portly older man and his portly older wife.

Art; sex for sex's sake; realism; ridiculous - whatever you think of it, sex on screen is doing what it does best these days: rustling feathers. And thank goodness for that.

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