Shortbus
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John Cameron Mitchell - Hedwig and the Angry Inch - includes some real S&M in his new movie, Shortbus.
Scenes of unsimulated sado-masochism, acrobatic sex acts, and unsatisfying masturbation loom large on the big screen.
But despite the real-life, sweaty, exposed sex scenes, both heterosexual and homosexual, Mitchell refuses to pigeonhole the largely improvised arthouse flick as plain-old porn.
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The story features Severin*, a dominatrix who aches for a real-life relationship; Sofia, a sex therapist who has never had an orgasm; and James and Jamie, a gay couple who enter the crisis zone when James suggests experimenting with other partners.
Daring director uses sex as language in Shortbus
* I’m so tired of seeing Severin, Wanda and Gregor from Venus in Furs referenced all the time.