mo4ch:>Celebrating the body, or just plain creepy? Director facing backlash over ‘porn’ movie at Cannes | Mo4ch News

French director Abdellatif Kechiche is not earning much praise for his latest film — a piece of cinema slammed for its depictions of women and described by one critic as a bland “three-hours-plus of jiggling female butts.”‘Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo’ follows protagonist Ophélie, who has been cheating on her husband and finds herself pregnant with her secret lover’s child — but that appears to be where the plot begins and ends.The film, or the “cinematic lap dance” as another critic put it, even had people walking out of the theatre at the Cannes Film Festival, particularly disturbed by a nearly 15-minute-long scene of unsimulated oral sex taking place in a nightclub toilet. When did going to the cinema to watch graphic, unsimulated, on-screen sex — also known as pornography — become the norm?Also on rt.comFrench not amused by US pressure to withdraw Cannes award from ‘racist, misogynist’ Alain Delon‘Mektoub’ is not the first time Kechiche — known for his “epic female buttock fetish”…