Critics pan Cannes movie deemed a twerk too far
Set in a nightclub and including 13 minutes of sex in a toilet, Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo, makes the audience the butt of the joke, says one critic
Cannes — A three-and-a-half hour largely plotless movie set in a nightclub, featuring girls twerking from every angle and a 13-minute explicit sex scene in the toilet, claimed the dubious honour as the most universally panned film at Cannes on Friday. Tunisian-French film maker Abdellatif Kechiche is no stranger to controversy, with his previous outings — including Blue Is The Warmest Colour, which won the cinema festival’s top Palme d’Or prize in 2013 — also featuring long, graphic sex scenes. But his latest movie, Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo, where the action unfolds almost in real time, left viewers up in arms after its late night premiere on Thursday. Some attendees tweeted that they had left the screening early and posted pictures of a thinned out cinema as the lights came on. Los Angeles Times critic Justin Chang said the movie was “the work of an embattled, controversy-seeking film maker who has decided to troll his audience. The movie is playing in the main competition, whi...
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