Romance is a slim look into a woman’s sexual psyche, with sex scenes that slightly excite while exploring human emotions.īruce willie shot aside, the only other things popping out in Color of Night are some ridiculous plot contortions and majorly camp moments. Sleeping Beauty‘s provocative premise and luminous art design is hampered by a clinical, remote presentation, delivering boredom and shock in equal measure. Unevenly echoing the work of Alfred Hitchcock, Basic Instinct contains a star-making performance from Sharon Stone but is ultimately undone by its problematic, overly lurid plot. Henry & June celebrates sensuality and passion, though the portentous filmmaking drags it down by a large degree.ĭespite the surprisingly distant, clinical direction, Crash‘s explicit premise and sex is classic Cronenberg territory. Though lushly atmospheric, The Dreamers doesn’t engage or provoke as much as it should.
Wild Things is a delightfully salacious, flesh-exposed romp that also requires a high degree of love for trash cinema. Kubrick’s intense study of the human psyche yields an impressive cinematic work.Īng Lee’s Lust, Caution is a tense, sensual and beautifully-shot espionage film.īeneath the gratuitous nudity lies a complex and visually striking movie.Īcted out with both physical and psychological nakedness by its two leads, Intimacy is an unflinchingly honest look at alienation.ĩ 1/2 Weeks‘ famously steamy sex scenes titillate though the drama unfolding between the beddings is relatively standard for the genre.
It doesn’t quite live up to the promise of the first installment, but Nymphomaniac: Volume II still benefits from Lars von Trier’s singular craft and vision, as well as a bravura performance from Charlotte Gainsbourg. Naturalistic but evocative, Last Tango in Paris is a vivid exploration of pain, love, and sex featuring a typically towering Marlon Brando performance.ĭarkly funny, fearlessly bold, and thoroughly indulgent, Nymphomaniac finds Lars von Trier provoking viewers with customary abandon.
Sexual taboos are broken and boundaries crossed In the Realm of the Senses, a fearlessly provocative psychosexual tale. This romantic crime drama may not be to everyone’s taste, but The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover is an audacious, powerful film. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover (1989, 90%) Raw, honest, powerfully acted, and deliciously intense, Blue Is the Warmest Color offers some of modern cinema’s most elegantly composed, emotionally absorbing drama. Critics Consensus: The Handmaiden uses a Victorian crime novel as the loose inspiration for another visually sumptuous and absorbingly idiosyncratic outing from director Park Chan-wook.
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