It begins with newly-turned 18 year old Romain getting caught filming himself masturbating in class at school. As embarrassing as it is to his parents, it makes his mother realize that they have served their children poorly. Sure, they taught them about condoms and pregnancy and AIDS, but what did they teach them about making love, and the role of sex in a relationship and in one's life?
So it goes, with mother talking with older son Pierre, and father trying to talk with Romain, while the movie goes about documenting the sex between the various characters.
The sex is unsimulated and explicit, with erect penises and all. However, while it is explicit, it is not exploitative. In other words, it doesn't feel like they intend for it to be arousing. The scenes are filmed in a manner that in no way resembles the way porn is filmed. At least, so I'm told by friends less virtuous than myself.
The whole point of the movie is to argue that people, even in France, are way too uptight about sex. It needs to be more normalized if our children are to grow up healthy of both body and mind. That I think is the reason why they felt compelled to have the sex be genuine. If they were to fake it, doesn't that run contrary to the idea of normalizing it?
I think it's a movie that is worth seeing, and worth talking about - if you aren't too embarrassed to.
So it goes, with mother talking with older son Pierre, and father trying to talk with Romain, while the movie goes about documenting the sex between the various characters.
The sex is unsimulated and explicit, with erect penises and all. However, while it is explicit, it is not exploitative. In other words, it doesn't feel like they intend for it to be arousing. The scenes are filmed in a manner that in no way resembles the way porn is filmed. At least, so I'm told by friends less virtuous than myself.
The whole point of the movie is to argue that people, even in France, are way too uptight about sex. It needs to be more normalized if our children are to grow up healthy of both body and mind. That I think is the reason why they felt compelled to have the sex be genuine. If they were to fake it, doesn't that run contrary to the idea of normalizing it?
I think it's a movie that is worth seeing, and worth talking about - if you aren't too embarrassed to.