Why is it so groundbreaking? Why is it so groundbreaking? The sex scene When Adèle and Emma first hit the bedsheets, Kechiche shows their lovemaking in intimate detail: a long, no-holds-barred sex scene.
Director: Stephen Frears Bedfellows: Daniel Day-Lewis, Gordon Warnecke The film This mid-1980s London-set British comedy tackles issues of race, sexuality and politics with a pleasingly light touch as it tells the story of Omar Warnecke , a young British-Pakistani man seduced by the capitalist dream — David Ehrlichspite his father being a left-wing radical.
The teasing, slyly comic double-penetration episode with Gainsbourg and two men? Still, it comes as something of a surprise when he cuts to a long take of himself and his partner in bed, engaged in real sex.
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