Juliette Binoche Masturbating? Hell Yes To “Elles”!

[youtube uY6UAn7fnag 640 360]"Elles" was shown at the Toronto International Film Festival and quickly became known as "the film where Juliette Binoche simulates screen masturbation," but there's so much more to it than that! Like, there's a couple of college students who pay their tuition with prostitution, and then there's Juliette getting to know them, and then, yeah, she masturbates and it's awesome.

One film critic was lucky enough to sit behind Juliette Binoche and the film's director, Malgoska Szumowska, during the TIFF showing of "Elles," and he got to see the women look at each other and giggle nervously throughout the whole thing. The next day, he interviewed Juliette.

"I felt a little uncomfortable last night," she admitted, laughing. "It is acting, of course." For inspiration, she said her director provided her with some 60 online videos of women masturbating. Not porn actresses, but civilians. "What's striking is that they almost look like babies sometimes, and other times it's like giving birth, or death. Some are faking it, and some are in the moment and not faking anything."

For her own prolonged scene, Binoche assured me that her orgasm was simulated. "I'm an artist," she said. "I just used my skills and body to recreate something. It's like a Goya painting. Or sculpting."

Which brings up the question: which Spanish painter best describes the quality of your orgasms?

· "Elles" (imdb.com)
· Via Vulture (vulture.com)