With a raft of new films containing graphic scenes set to feature prominently at the industry’s award ceremonies, it appears Hollywood’s puritanical phase is well and truly over
Welcome or not, a breaking wave of screen sex is upon us. Television dramas are chock-full of intimate encounters and now cinemagoers have been warned to fasten their seatbelts, since many of the new films up for prizes in the next couple of months feature unusually graphic moments.
In fact, this could well be “the sexiest awards season in years”, or at least the one with the most sex scenes in it. So says the producer and film expert Jason Solomons, and for him it is a pleasing change of gear, coming after a mildly puritanical phase in entertainment.
