Babygirl | 2024 Venice Film Festival Review

Fuck Like No One’s Watching: Reijn Delivers Prudent & Provocative Sexual Odyssey

“There is to my mind no doubt that the concept of beautiful had its roots in sexual excitation and that its original meaning was sexually stimulating,” wrote Sigmund Freud in his 1905 publication Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality. In the century since Freud’s various hypotheses on sexuality were written, and eventually overshadowed by a progressive and enlightened collective understanding of how sexuality functions, cinema, particularly American cinema, has remained suffocated by rigid and archaic ideas regarding sexuality and morality. Partially, this is due to the historically patriarchal gatekeeping which repressed women and the LGBTQ+ community.… Read the rest

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