For some, it’s worth it: one reviewer said, “This uncompromising film has not dated one iota, perhaps because films that are really about sex are still such a rarity... Oshima’s film widens and deepens the sensual realm.”.
The film, which tells the story of two Mexican teenage boys who take a road trip from Mexico City to a beach in Oaxaca with a Spanish woman in her late twenties, has been heralded for the open, joyful way it depicts sex.
So his explicit love story, Love, which has a number of unsimulated sex scenes (and a 3D ejaculation sequence) was always going to divide critics.
It tells the story of an obsessional love affair between a hotel owner and a maid who works for him, which culminates in a crime of passion (and which is based on a true story).
This stunningly shot story from Céline Sciamma tells the story of painter Marianne (Noémie Merlant) who has been hired by the mother of aristocrat Héloïse (Adèle Haenel) to secretly paint a portrait of her daughter.
