Cannes 2019: critics savage ‘retrograde’ non-stop twerking and pole-dancing scenes in Abdellatif Kechiche’s film Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo
- Blue Is the Warmest Colour director Abdellatif Kechiche lambasted for the way his camera drools over the bodies of his female cast in his latest film
- Producer who was one of many to walk out of screening condemns its ‘objectification and voyeurism’; even fans of the French director were appalled
An almost unwatchable film by one of France’s top directors that includes some two-and-a-half hours of twerking and pole dancing was savaged at the Cannes film festival on Friday.
Critics laid into Abdellatif Kechiche – who is being investigated by police for an alleged sexual assault on an actress – for the way the camera in his film Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo drools over the bodies of his female cast, and for a 13-minute cunnilingus scene in a nightclub toilet.
“It is painfully retrograde and painful to watch,” the Hollywood Reporter declared.
The film, which is a follow-up to 2017’s Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno consists of “three-hours-plus of jiggling female butts”, wrote critic Boyd van Hoeij.
“Oral-sex intermezzo aside, this is basically Twerking Female Fannies: The Movie. Sitting through it was its own kind of hell. If only one could unsee and unhear it,” he added.
