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Unsimulated
From Lars von Trier to John Cameron Mitchell and almost every Vincent Gallo movie, here are the films that actually captured real sex scenes.
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“Wetlands,” “Pola X,” “The Idiots,” “Intimacy,” “Strange by the Lake,” “Immoral Woman”
Sex on film is nothing new, and yet unsimulated intercourse in non-pornographic films has been somewhat of a marvel.
Catherine Breillat ‘s first film in 1976, “A Very Young Girl,” adapts her own controversial novel about a 14-year-old exploring her newfound sexuality. While the lead actress Charlotte Alexandra was age 20 during production, the film wasn’t released in theaters in the U.S. until 2000.
Breillat’s later film, “Romance,” was announced as the first European film with non-simulated sex scenes in 1999, according to Breillat.
“Actors are prostitutes because they’re asked to play other feelings,” Breillat exclusively told IndieWire . “This prostitution is not profane; it’s a sacred act that we give them.”
In contrast, John Cameron Mitchell set out to “honor” sex as a pastime for real people, much like art, music, or cuisine, in his second feature film, “Shortbus,” the 2006 film now rolling out a re-release restoration nationwide.
Mitchell told IndieWire about filming the cult classic, “Certainly, a lot of films had used sex, but they were pretty grim, and I wanted something more fun and funny, but still emotionally deep. And so I said, ‘I never want you to do anything you don’t want to do, but I do want you to challenge yourselves so we can challenge the audience.'”
Mitchell continued, “‘Shortbus’ isn’t about sex. It uses sex as a medium, as a delivery system for ideas and characters and emotions, just like ‘Hedwig [and the Angry Itch]’ uses music. Sex is our music in ‘Shortbus.’ We really only did one sexual rehearsal. I just went with what they wanted to do.”
And the depiction of unsimulated sex onscreen has taken many forms across decades and new political landscapes. “In terms of sex being presented on film, mainstream or even independent film has foresworn it,” Mitchell summarized. “They’ve given it up, because it’s too scary. There’s too many people saying someone’s being exploited and consent-based issues in intimacy. Imagine an intimacy counselor on the ‘Shortbus’ set. Imagine…a ‘Shortbus’ intimacy counselor would be like, ‘May he put his arm inside you now? Is that OK?'”
See the definitive list of unsimulated sex in film, directed by filmmakers from Lars von Trier to Vincent Gallo, William Friedkin and Abel Ferrera.
Catherine Breillat’s 1999 film is widely credited for destigmatizing unsimulated sex scenes in arthouse cinema. “Romance” follows Marie (Caroline Ducey) as she searches for sexual fulfillment outside of her monogamous relationship.
The 1979 film starring Helen Mirren includes necrophiliac incest, which is thankfully simulated. But the montage of sex scenes is very much so unsimulated, thanks to Penthouse founder Bob Guccione being a producer on the film.
Catherine Breillat’s “A Real Young Girl” centers on the coming-of-age sexual awakening of a 14-year-old girl (Charlotte Alexandra). The actors were of age while filming, with Alexandra 20 at the time of production.
Nagisa Oshima’s “In the Realm of Senses” is based on the true story of Sada Abe, a Japanese woman who erotically asphyxiated her lover then cut off his penis and kept it in her handbag. While the mutiliation and murder aren’t real, the sex very much is.
William Friedkin’s “Cruising” — set in NYC’s leather community during a string of homicides — features murder scenes that are cut with (and, inherently, compared to) actual footage of unsimulated sex.
Co-written and directed by Leos Carax, “Pola X” features a pair of long-lost siblings turned lovers in the adaptation of a Herman Melville novel. Body doubles were reportedly used for the more explicit scenes but it’s unsimulated sex nonetheless — just not quite sure whether or not featuring lead stars Guillaume Depardieu and Yekaterina Golubera.
Lars von Trier’s “The Idiots” encourages letting out the “inner idiot” inside. Turns out, most of our idiotic or most primal tendencies include orgies. Most sex scense in the film are simulated, but there is one scene that is definitely real.
“Baise-Moi,” which translates to “Rape Me,” is co-written and co-directed by Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi. The rape revenge thriller has real sex, but not real violence, but still was widely controversial.
Portuguese film “O Fantasma,” or as translated, “The Phantom,” is about Sergio (Ricardo Meneses) who explores love interests in Lisbon. It’s not porn, but it sure does have a lot of sex.
Written and directed by Vincent Gallo, “The Brown Bunny” famously features an unsimulated oral sex scene with Chloe Sevigny. Gallo himself is the receiver, and the scene continues until his completion.
Jay (Mark Rylance) and Claire (Kerry Fox) are two strangers who have weekly, not-so-anonymous sex, until they develop an emotional relationship. Likened to “Last Tango in Paris,” “Intimacy” entirely features unsimulated sex scenes. “Intimacy” is the first film in the history of Britain to feature hardcore sex scenes and be passed by the BBFC without cuts. Kerry Fox’s real life partner Alexander Linklater wrote a column for The Guardian in 2001 detailing his own experience watching his lover have real sex with another man in a film.
Lead stars Kieran O’Brien and Margo Stilley engage in unsimulated sex intercut with real footage of concert performances by Franz Ferdinand, The Dandy Warhols, and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club in Michael Winterbottom’s “9 Songs.” (In Mexico, the film’s title translates to “9 Orgasms.”) Stilley and O’Brien met for the first time only two days before having to have unsimulated sex for the film. Stilley originally had requested to go uncredited in the final film, but remains billed as the lead star.
Catherine Breillat continues to document unsimulated sex by way of art. Italian porn star Rocco Siffredi performs in “Anatomy of Hell,” which delves into the darker side of sexuality.
Iconic film “Shortbus” captured unsimulated sex in a variety of ways while following a group of people in New York navigating love and sex.
“[Director John Cameron Mitchell] front loaded a lot of the sex to kind of break the audience, shock people at first, weed out the really squeamish people and kind of get people comfortable for what they’re gonna be seeing,” lead star Paul Dawson told Pride Source in 2006. To note, Dawson is shown performing oral sex on himself…multiple times.
Lars von Trier takes on unsimulated sex again in “Antichrist,” about a couple, played by Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg, who lose a child out of negligence because they are having sex in the shower. That sex scene is 100 percent real; the death (and subsequent ritualistic gential mutiliation) is not.
Stars Eric Balfour and Lauren Lee Smith take part in unsimulated sex in yet another “Last Tango in Paris” type film, directed by Clément Virgo.
Originally titled “The Velvet Side of Hell,” “8MM 2” was rebranded as a sequel to the Nicolas Cage snuff film thriller (it’s not). However, “8MM 2” does feauture unsimulated sex, as well as snippets from porn films.
Living up to its title, “Nymphomaniac” and its sequel has a lot of sex. But, is it unsimulated or not? The love scenes in the film were allegedly created by digitally adding porn star’s genitals to actor’s bodies for a head-scratching simulated vs. unsimulated debate for this Lars von Trier set of films.
Most of the sex scenes involving Helen (Carla Juri) is simulated, but a sequence with men masturbating onto a pizza is not. And no, that is not mozzarella.
Willem Dafoe stars as Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini in the 2014 biopic directed by Abel Ferrara. The sex scenes are largely unsimulated, portraying Pasolini’s relationship with lust, love, and the body.
Written and directed by Gaspar Noé, “Love” is shot in 3D to get the full (ejaculate) experience. Noé first pitched the film to Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel while making “Irreversible.” The script was rumored to be only seven pages long, with Noé letting the actors improvise and figure out their own blocking during sex scenes.
Swedish director Vilgot Sjöman’s 1967 film “I Am Curious (Yellow)” was originally billed as porn in the U.S. However, Roger Ebert’s criticism of the movie cited that it was “anti-erotic” in nature, as reported by Vulture . State and federal claims against the film for being obscene went to the Supreme Court.
Filmmaker Sjöman said at the time, via Entertainment Weekly , “If you’re speculating with sex and have nothing to say artistically, you’re going to have a bad film. But if you have something to say, you’re on safe ground.”
Jess Franco’s 1975 film can be seen in three different versions: a straight vampire film called “La comtesse noire,” an erotic horror film entitled “La Comtesse aux seins nus,” and a hardcore version, “Les avaleuses.” The film premiered in France under the title “La Comtesse noire.”
The 2007 film, directed by David Brothers and Crispin Glover, contains actual penetration.
The 1976 erotic musical comedy version of “Alice in Wonderland” includes an unsimulated lesbian sex scene between Kristine DeBell and Juliet Graham. The movie was originally produced as a softcore film, but later re-edited as a hardcore pornographic film, using footage not filmed during the original production, including a sequence of De Bell performing oral sex on the film’s producer, Bill Osco, which was edited into the film’s Mad Hatter sequence.
Split into three stories, “Immoral Woman” is directed by Walerian Borowczyk and follows a trio of women: Margherita, Marceline, and Marie. The first story with Margherita has an unsimulated intercourse scene.
Norwegian film “Pornopung” is directed by Johan Kaos and includes a long fellatio scene.
Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Dogtooth” briefly includes real sex to “establish the unusual and dysfunctional lifestyle that results from the isolation orchestrated by the dictatorial father, including incest,” per the British Board of Film Classification.
John Waters’ 1972 film “Pink Flamingos” was banned in Australia due to a “close-up real depictions of actual fellatio….which unambiguously contravene R classification guidelines.” The scene in question features drag queen Divine, who performs real oral sex on the actor playing her son in the film.
Also known as “L’Inconnu du lac,” the French thriller premiered iat the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. Director Alain Guiraudie won Best Director, and the film also took home the Queer Palm award. While there is nudity aplenty, “Stranger by the Lake” also contains scenes of unsimulated sex that were shot using body doubles.
The 2005 film, directed by Jessica Nilsson, features intercourse between Eileen Daly and Gry Bay and additional male actors, as well as fellatio with ejaculation performed by Daly on Mark Stevens, and cunnilingus performed by Ovidie on Bay. The famous scene was shot in lead actress Bay’s actual apartment.
Sean S. Baker’s “Starlet” contains a scene of penetration while set in the porn capital of the San Fernando Valley in Southern California.
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From "Love" to "The Brown Bunny" and Abdellatif Kechiche's controversy-marred "Mektoub," Cannes has been riled up by many an unsimulated sex scene.
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Editor’s Note: This story was originally published in May 2019 and has been updated accordingly.
Cannes has a history of premiering sexually explicit films throughout its history — and with all manner of unsimulated acts — to both shocks and shrugs on the Croisette.
An avant-garde film like Yugoslavian director Dušan Makavejev’s brilliantly sex-crazed bonanza “Sweet Movie” likely didn’t swallow well with American audiences treated to its insanities, from coprophilia to vomit play, but it’s gone on to attract a cult following.
Most recently, “Blue Is the Warmest Colour” director Abdellatif Kechiche effectively made himself persona non grata among U.S. distributors when, in 2019, he released his nearly four-hour-long sequel “Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo,” a graphic and some felt blatantly misogynist epic of young people having all the sex in the world. The film has never been seen stateside and remains the subject of ongoing legal entanglements due to Kechiche’s treatment of lead actress Ophélie Bau, who claimed he denied her permission to see the film’s most graphic scene prior to the premiere. Kechiche had a slightly warmer reception in 2013, when the simulated but realistic acts in “Blue” helped power it, and leads Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux, all the way to the Palme.
This year’s festival was heavier on horrors of the body (“Crimes of the Future,” “De Humani Corporis Fabrica’) than its pleasures (though Claire Denis’ “Stars at Noon” brought some steam to the Croisette). But Cannes most years, as you’ll see below, has at least a few sex scandals of its own. Below, we look back at the history of unsimulated sex scenes at Cannes — from the arcane to the more arthouse-accessible like Gaspar Noé and Lars von Trier and, of course, Vincent Gallo’s infamous “Brown Bunny” oral sex scene.
Tambay Obenson contributed to this story.
While often credited as premiering in Cannes, this Swedish thriller — also known as “They Call Her One Eye” and “Hooker’s Revenge” — was a exploitation film that debuted in the Cannes Market. It only achieved a level of auteur bona fides when the schlockmeisters at American International Pictures released a dubbed version in the U.S., where it found a passionate fan in Quentin Tarantino and inspiration for his Elle Driver character (Daryl Hannah) in “Kill Bill.” Written and directed by Bo Arne Vibenius under the pseudonym Alex Fridolinski, it tells the story of a mute woman (Christina Lindberg) who seeks revenge against the men who forced her into heroin addiction and prostitution. Initially banned by the Swedish film censorship board, the film features hardcore pornographic sequences in addition to a punishing amount of gore. — TO
Directed by Yugoslavian Dušan Makavejev, the avant-garde dramedy follows two women: a virgin Canadian beauty queen as she attempts to flee from her millionaire husband and his solid gold penis; and a socialist captain of a ship loaded with sugar and candy, sailing down the Seine with her lover in tow. With explicit sex scenes, the original cut included depictions of coprophilia, emetophilia, and suggested child molestation. It was banned in several countries or gutted prior to release. “Sweet Movie” premiered at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival. —TO
The feature debut of Bruno Dumont, the film follows a group of bored teenagers led by Freddy, who’s engaged in a rather crude sexual relationship with a girl named Marie. When young immigrant Kader expresses interest in Marie, and she responds to him, Freddy’s gang is outraged, setting off a tragic chain of events. Including a scene of a brutal rape, Dumont shoots unsimulated sex with extreme close-ups of genitals. The grim film earned the filmmaker the Camera d’Or at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival. — TO
Provocateur Lars von Trier wrote and directed this Danish dramedy in compliance with his Dogme 95 Manifesto. The second film in his Golden Heart Trilogy, it was among the first features to be shot entirely with digital cameras. Controversy arose over its explicit sexual content, including a shower scene in which a character has an erection and, later, a group sex scene that includes one couple (stand-ins from the porn industry) having unsimulated intercourse. The film screened in competition at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. — TO
Leos Carax’s provocative and relatively faithful adaptation of Herman Melville’s 1852 work “Pierre; or, The Ambiguities,” gained international infamy for its unsimulated sex acts between Guillaume Depardieu (Pierre) and Yekaterina Golubeva (Isabelle), although stand-ins were used for the more graphic sequences. The film, often associated with the New French Extremity of transgressive films by French directors at the turn of the 21st century, premiered at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival. — TO
An aging porn director (Jean-Pierre Léaud in a variation on his role in Olivier Assayas’ “Irma Vep”) attempts to rekindle his relationship with his estranged son (Jérémie Renier), while also returning to the porn industry to direct another film. The erotic drama, written and directed by Bertrand Bonello, features one explicit, unsimulated sex scene with two French pornographic actors, Ovidie and Titof. “The Pornographer” was selected for the Cannes International Semaine de la
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