“We hunger for movies that are in any proximity to our own experience,” the filmmaker said.
“Frank and thoughtful portrayals of sex are essential to cinematic storytelling and in service of representation more broadly.
Sachs is far from the first filmmaker frustrated by an NC-17 rating.
Ben Whishaw and Franz Rogowski in ‘Passages’.Courtesy of Sundance Institute
Last year, Andrew Dominik’sBlondebecame a Netflix rarity when it received the rating for graphic sexual content.
The news wasa surprise to Dominikbecause he thought “we’d colored inside the lines.”
Similarly,Infinity PooldirectorBrandon Cronenbergre-cut his thriller so it could be released with an R-rating.
“There’s no untangling the film from what it is,” the filmmaker explained.
“It is a film that is very open about the place of sexual experience in our lives.
And to shift that now would be to create a very different movie.”
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