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From ‘Babygirl’ to ‘Queer’ and ‘Emmanuelle,’ Erotic Movies Are Back and They’re Heating Up the Fall Festival Circuit
Erotic movies, from 'Babygirl' to 'Queer' and 'Emmanuelle' are making a steamy comeback in the fall festival circuit.
Kidman, who previously delivered memorable performances in sexually charged movies such as ”Eyes Wide Shut” and “The Paperboy,” said at the film’s Venice press conference that Reijn’s “female gaze” guided her to tell a story that is “liberating for women,” as touches on many topics, including “marriage, truth, power, consent.” The movie also deals with adultery; a topic that has traditionally been tackled from a male perspective depicting female characters as either saints or dangerous nymphomaniacs, with notorious examples such as the cult Michael Douglas-Glen Close thriller “Fatal Attraction.” In “Babygirl,” the person who threatens the sacro-saint family is a younger man. A notorious example of a filmmaker who raised several red flags is straight director Abdellatif Kechiche who made the lesbian romance “Blue is the Warmest Color” and was accused by Lea Seydoux and Adele Exarchopoulos of mishandling a sex scene that took 10 days to film and was mainly improvised.
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