A darker side of female sexuality was on display in Cannes in a film portraying a woman who seduced a schoolboy and built a picture-perfect life with him after a tabloid scandal. | via philstarlife
A darker side of female sexuality was on display in Cannes on Saturday, May 20 in a film portraying a woman who seduced a schoolboy and built a picture-perfect life with him after a tabloid scandal.takes the viewer on a rollercoaster of moral ambiguity as it looks at the couple living a life of apparent suburban bliss with their children long after they dominated headlines.
Portman—whose character also takes questionable decisions—told AFP in an interview that she loved to see the women"behave in morally ambiguous ways." "It always drives me crazy when people are like, oh, if only women rule the world, it would be a kinder place. No, women are humans and come in all different complexities.", a film by French director Luc Besson which led her to be sexualized as a child, and towards which she has said she now has complicated feelings.
"I think that there is no limit to how much it can be explored, so I'd like to see more," said Portman., starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara."It's how we survive. I believe that we repress a lot of our desires for the best reasons. It's how a civilized society exists by holding back."
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