Sex In Cinema 1996
November, 1996
Sex in Cinema 1996For most of 1996, sex in mainstream movies appeared stuck in look-don'-touch mode: a strip-joint scene here, a flash of breast there. Then along came Crash, shaking up audiences at the Cannes Film Festival with its explicit, orgiastic parade of swingers whose carnal desires are ignited by automobile smashups and scar tissue. Although David Cronenberg's kinky auto-erotism shocked many festivalgoers, the film picked up a Special Jury Prize "for its daring, audacity and origi...