The film Working with a Daphne du Maurier short story, Roeg gives us Laura Christie and John Sutherland , a married couple who travel from Britain to Venice for his job after losing their young daughter in a drowning accident. Why is it so groundbreaking? It just feels so real. Their sex feels like both an expression of grief and a welcome respite from it. The film After the catatonic breakdown of stage star Elisabet Ullmann , she and nurse Alma Andersson enter into a fluid, mesmerizing power struggle, also a meeting of the minds.
10 Actresses Who Are Basically Nude For The Entire Movie – Page 3
Welcome to Sexpositions, a weeklong Vulture celebration of sex scenes in movies and on TV. Sex scenes have a rich, varied tradition in the cinema. In the s, they were commodified in startling ways. These days, they tend to be relatively rare. Some of the scenes on this list are seminal moments in film history for better and for worse.
What exactly is gratuitous nudity? Cinema in the Seventies was basically one long nude scene; it would be easier to list films without nudity than with. To learn that she was topless for even a microsecond was epic news from sea to shining sea.
Picture a movie sex scene — not one in particular, but the archetypal notion of one. Does it involve a tastefully topless actress throwing her head back in ecstasy as our leading man nibbles down the length of her neck? If so, the s did a number on you … and, it must be said, everybody else. As the last film decade before celebrity skin became easily search-indexed online, the s offered love scenes galore in just about every type of genre. And while a loosening of film standards meant that sex and nudity had become almost commonplace in the s and s, the s codified how a sex scene ought to look in ways that continue to filter down into modern-day movies and the sexually explicit world of premium cable.