by Kathleen Dooley
There are few adjectives as difficult to define as this one. Now used to describe everything from cars to stationary, it seems to have something to do with a level of excitement or attractiveness which a thing or person emits. A TV commercial for some sort of self help product in Oz recently asked me, Are you sex confident? I'm not really sure what that means but all I can say is that it's definitely a subjective experience. One girl's Brad Pitt is another's Patrick Stewart. I certainly didn't think Sexy Beast was particularly sexy, but someone must have.
Similarly the electricity is flying when hardened criminal Paul (Vincent Cassel) catches an accidental glimpse down the shirt of his deaf boss Carla (Emmanuelle Devos) in Sur mes Lévres. Tension builds to a climax as we wait to see the outcome of these two opposites who are thrown together, each learning something new from the other.
So thumbs down to gratuitous nudity, sexual violence and soft porn. Bring on the meeting of minds and bodies by way of compelling narratives and characters. Others many disagree but that s my 2 cents worth.
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