Gaspar Noé’s Latest Film Features Real Sex, Is Greeted By A Collective Shrug

As we reported last week, Argentine provocateur Gaspar Noé's latest film Love 3D is not, in fact, a porn. According to The Daily Mail (link below), however, it does feature unsimulated sex and a creative use of 3D that allows viewers to see semen come flying right at them. 

The film leaves nothing to the imagination as it tells the story of a young couple's tempestuous love affair, featuring over a dozen extremely graphic unsimulated sex scenes, including close-up ejaculations, orgies, a threesome and a transvestite prostitute.

The posters had already given Love plenty of notoriety ahead of its premiere on the French Riviera, with one featuring a penis post-climax.

The real show, apparently, was outside the screening where throngs of people were fighting to get into the screening like it was a Who concert.

The crowds trying to gain entry for the midnight screening were so large that dozens of ticket-holders had to be turned away and arguments broke out outside the Grand Palais theatre.

As for Noé, he treated the film like the high art he seems to think all of his films are, popping off pretentious quotes for the press.

'For years, I have dreamed of making a film that would fully reproduce the passion of a young couple in love, in all its physical and emotional excesses.'

Noe, who learnt filmmaking in France and lives there, said he wanted to transcend 'the ridiculous division that dictates no normal film can contain overtly erotic scenes, even though everyone loves to make love.

'I felt that 3D would allow the viewer a greater sense of identification with the lead character and his nostalgic state,' Noe said.

For their part, audience members seemed less than impressed...

'Like bad sex, (it) seems to go on forever with no climax or ending in sight,' tweeted Sophie Kaufman, of Little White Lies movie magazine.

'Just Gaspar Noe badly sketching a souring relationship. And the sex scenes get boring after a while,' wrote Isabel Stevens, of Sight and Sound magazine, on Twitter.

BBC film critic Jason Solomons said it 'was definitely not a porn film - the dialogue's not up to that level'.

Variety gave a more nuanced critique, saying 'you've gotta hand it to Noe for leaving no taboo unturned, and for putting so much of himself into a film that's bound to leave titillation seekers resenting its creator during the long stretches of wallowing introspection between climaxes.'

Specialty distributor Alchemy picked up the film for release here in the States, but there is no word yet on what, if anything, will be cut before puritanical American audiences refuse to lay eyes on it.

Via The Daily Mail