{"id":9971,"date":"2019-06-25T16:48:58","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T23:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9971"},"modified":"2019-07-06T17:05:48","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T00:05:48","slug":"no-mo-mise-en-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/06\/25\/no-mo-mise-en-sex\/","title":{"rendered":"No Mo&#8217; Mise En Sex"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/entertainment\/article\/Sex-is-disappearing-from-the-big-screen-and-it-s-13958705.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"from The  Washington Post via SF Gate (opens in a new tab)\">from The  Washington Post via SF Gate<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sex is disappearing from the big screen, and it&#8217;s making movies less pleasurable<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>by Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lGH-hcyRa88\" width=\"480\" height=\"292\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p>At the Cannes film festival last month, the scandal arrived with metronomic predictability: Quentin Tarantino&#8217;s &#8220;Once Upon a Time in &#8230; Hollywood&#8221; might have been the week&#8217;s hottest ticket and Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho might have taken the cherished Palme d&#8217;Or. But it was Abdellatif Kechiche&#8217;s &#8220;Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo&#8221; that set tongues wagging, literally and figuratively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The nearly four-hour film caused a ruckus, not just because of its derriere-numbing running time (most of it spent observing nubile teenage girls twerking to a pounding soundtrack of club music), but because of a 15-minute scene of cunnilingus, filmed so realistically that questions immediately arose as to whether it was unsimulated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the Cannes film festival last month, the scandal arrived with metronomic predictability: Quentin Tarantino&#8217;s &#8220;Once Upon a Time in &#8230; Hollywood&#8221; might have been the week&#8217;s hottest ticket and Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho might have taken the cherished Palme d&#8217;Or. But it was Abdellatif Kechiche&#8217;s &#8220;Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo&#8221; that set tongues wagging, literally and figuratively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The nearly four-hour film caused a ruckus, not just because of its derriere-numbing running time (most of it spent observing nubile teenage girls twerking to a pounding soundtrack of club music), but because of a 15-minute scene of cunnilingus, filmed so realistically that questions immediately arose as to whether it was unsimulated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/entertainment\/article\/Sex-is-disappearing-from-the-big-screen-and-it-s-13958705.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"click to continue reading at SFGate (opens in a new tab)\">click to continue reading at SFGate<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Washington Post via SF Gate Sex is disappearing from the big screen, and it&#8217;s making movies less pleasurable by Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post At the Cannes film festival last month, the scandal arrived with metronomic predictability: Quentin Tarantino&#8217;s &#8220;Once Upon a Time in &#8230; Hollywood&#8221; might have been the week&#8217;s hottest ticket [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}