t’s only the second day of Cannes, and the program already has its subversive claws out.
Being a center of global filmic expression, Cannes often contains movies with explicit and controversial subject matter. So far this year, two features match that expectation.
"Spring Fever," a romantic drama from daring Chinese filmmaker Lou Ye, focuses on a woman who hires a private investigator to follow her husband as he engages in an affair with a man. The movie contains multiple scenes of explicit gay sex, not to mention a dense, hardly decipherable plot and monotonous performances.
If it wins the Palme d’Or, I vow to renounce this year’s jury.