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This, perhaps, begins an approach to the kind of liberation Europe has long enjoyed. Yet Hollywood movies show sex, if at all, in only the most juvenile ways--a la American Pie. Hollywood sex is either an embarrassing theater joke or a glossy fantasy. In theater the meantime, the French have been pushing the boundaries of sexual exploration and depiction with such movies as L’ennui, Pola X, An Affair of Love, and Romance. This might, in part, be motivated by the horrible financial state of French cinema. Sex is an area in which Hollywood cannot compete theater with the French. More pertinent, though, is a philosophical difference: French filmmakers find sex an essential element of human life that pleads for representation in art.
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