Acclaimed gay director Lisa Cholodenko weighed in on the the lesbian sex scene in the upcoming Natalie Portman-Mila Kunis film Black Swan, saying it may have been extraneous.
"It sounds like the kind of subplot that could have not been in the movie," Cholodenko said of the Darren Aronofsky-directed film at a Los Angeles awards luncheon, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The sex scene between Julianne Moore and Annette Bening in her recent film The Kids Are All Right was done with humor and sweetness, Cholodenko said, and was not intended for titillation. Cholodenko admits to receiving heat from lesbians, who felt betrayed that Moore's character has an affair with a man in The Kids Are All Right.
Cholodenko, who directed a terrific and poignant sex scene between Ally Sheedy and Radha Mitchell in High Art over a decade ago, may feel her TKAAR scene was directed with humor and sweetness, but judging from comments on this site, lesbians also found the absolute lack of sexual chemistry --or even mild working knowledge of what each partner likes in bed -- between the women in the long-term lesbian couple to be a cringe-worthy and hackneyed portrayal of lesbian bed death.
If Black Swan’s sex scene is extraneous and Cholodenko’s moms in TKAAR can’t even get off, can we please find something in between?
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