#7 Malcolm McDowell & Christine Noonan My fellow Sex Gourmets, today we take a look at Lindsay Anderson’s classic ‘If…’ (1968). Here, we have a rare exemplary of a sex scene managing the impossible limbo between half-way hinted sex and a pure animalistic attack. The semester has just started at one of the renowned grey …
Bertolucci, Brando, Biolay – Négatif (2003)
Like a vampireYou would wake up a dead personAnd your bite is worth all melee, Worth all the stretches, all tangos of time Benjamin Biolay, Glory Hole French master-composer Benjamin Biolay’s second album Négatif (2003) is a devastating demonstration of his divine elegance, but also of his substance. It is an undeterred response to his …
The Sex Gourmet – A History of Violence (2005)
#2 Maria Bello & Viggo Mortensen Marriage can do terrible damage to the libido for the less imaginative of couples. The humdrum of life subtly taking over, missionary being the only option on the menu, or perhaps the kinkier of couples introducing a new friend, rubber or otherwise to their sex play. Thankfully, our two …
Serge Gainsbourg – Melody Nelson (1971)
by Blake Thomas
Before Jane Birkin, Serge Gainsbourg’s muse was French pop princess Brigitte Bardot, and his work with her was a mutation of swirling chanson with slight psychedelic leanings. But when ol’ Serge turned his gnarled eye towards the Mod-era British model and actress, all bets were off. The two were like a perverse, twisted Sonny & Cher; but instead of warming hearts, they lit a dark fire, like some erotic demons possessed with sexual desire.