What is your favourite erotic moment in film?
Prepping for the Sex on Screen Debate, I’ve been asking around to find out about our fave sexy moments in cinema. The BEV team have set the ball rolling with a quick email whip round. More erotic cinema moments stories to come from beyond the BEV HQ soon.
WARNING: may contain some filthy adult content…
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Me: Watching Jane Campion’s In the Cut made me realise just how different a female perspective on screen can be. It was so plainly written by a woman. I don’t think I’d ever seen a man give pleasure to a woman in any convincing way in film before – not – umm – like that, anyway. But isn’t that madness?!
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Natalie: I think my favorite sexy moment in cinema is the montage in the beginning of the film Amelie, where she muses how many people where having orgasms in that very moment, and we zip thru various couples and a threesome of unlikely people enjoying an afternoon delight. I just love how there is humour there
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Toyin: How about Monster’s Ball with Halle and Billy-bob I thought it was weird but some may find it erotic. I thought 300 with Gerard and Lena was good but you can really tell a guy directed that scene - but it did have some ‘aww’ moments
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Emilie: COULD SOMEONE PLEASE FLIPPINWELL MENTION DIRTY DANCING SO I DON’T HAVE TO! That scene when they are dancing and stripping and… vavavoom… you know the rest. Then you ‘just’ get a brief glimpse of Swayze’s arse as he slides out of bed… wahwahweewoo very naaice. Oddly the director’s name is almost the same as mine in a weird anagramy kinda way: Emile Ardolino. hmmmmm.
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Harriet: I like the bit in Strictly Ballroom behind the curtain, where his parents are trying to get him to dance with his old partner, but he refuses and dances with his true lurve secretly and has been running around trying to find her… With brilliant Nancy Sinatra over the top “Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps….” and everyone can see their shadows. Sexy, funny, loads of tension, romantic and a bit rebellious. And my inner speccy geek enjoys it.
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Tamsyn:
Hi all - these are great but in order to go beyond the heterosexual matric what about THAT scene in Brokeback Mountain?? Not so much sexy as ‘ye-owch’ maybe but definitely very powerful …
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We’d love to hear yours! So much so, that we have a few copies of In Bed With - “A collection of sexy bedtime stories by award-winning, bestselling women novelists” (including Fay Weldon, Joanne Harris, Ali Smith and more) to anyone who desires to divulge their favourite erotic moment in cinema by leaving a comment below…
And read the co-authors of In Bed With share their favourite sexy moments in cinema, and talk about why they produced the book, on our blog here.
Categories: Festival News, Film Reviews
Tags: Sex
Comments (20)
Kelly Robinson
March 7th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
I have two – am I allowed two?! Another Jane Campion film – the scene in The Piano where Harvey Keitel’s character finds a hole in Ada’s (Holly Hunter) stocking and touches her skin with his finger. I know it’s a cliché to talk about this scene but I always love seeing the sex scene in Don’t Look Now. It’s both sexy and romantic - and real – which so few sex scenes in Hollywood are of course.
Hannah
March 8th, 2009 at 11:33 pm
Harvey Keitel & Holly Hunter in The Piano.
Hannah
March 8th, 2009 at 11:37 pm
Oh, incredible! Hadn’t read the above comment & was even tempted to include an apologetic note due to a perhaps unpopular choice. So glad others share the same view about The Piano.
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March 9th, 2009 at 3:22 am
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Gabriel
March 9th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Jennifer Lopez and George Clooney in Out Of Sight.
Steven Soderbergh’s masterful cross-cutting between the seduction in the hotel bar and what comes later. The hotel scene is brilliantly pitched between an excellent George Clooney, suitably smooth and yet slightly shy, and (pre-J-Lo) Jennifer Lopez sexy, sultry and sizzling. Soderbergh teases us throughout with the lingering looks, pregnant pauses and some great freeze frames. Yup, got to be on the list.
rebecca frankel
March 9th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Vincent Gallo and Chloë Sevigny BJ scene in The Brown Bunny. gay best friend got me onto it….
Clare
March 9th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
I’ve always liked that moment in Being John Malkovitch when Maxine and John Malkovitch are in his apartment and kissing in the corridor, pressing up against the wall and Malkovitch murmurs ‘Shall we to the boudoir?’. It’s funny but captures that kind of moment really well.
Lucy
March 9th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
My favourite sex scene in cinema is The Constant Gardener, when Rachel Weiss’ and Ralph Fiennes’ characters basically laugh their socks off. It’s funny and intimate and just so *true*. Or maybe that just says something about my sex life
Alita Simpsom
March 9th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
Alita
My Favorite and very tasteful sex scene in cinema, has to be in Mulholland Drive.
The scene shows the first sexual interaction between Laura Elena Harring, and Naomi Watts, as they share a bed together after quite a horrific afternoon.
The scene I feel was tastefully shot, and I think is appreciated by both male and female viewers.
Eva
March 9th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
The title of the film is Damage - julliette Binoche and Jeremy Irons
All sex scenes with Jeremy fully dressed are very erotic..
Boom007
March 9th, 2009 at 9:01 pm
I like the Charlisangels adult sex vacations issue.
Bridget
March 10th, 2009 at 9:12 am
The second to last scene in Stealing Beauty where Liv Tyler finally has sex with the very sweet and very naive Italian guy. Beautifully shot with great music and yet very realistic-awkward, funny and pretty short! but no less erotic for its realism.
Lady Lavinia- Lavinia Dos Remedios
March 10th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
Hands down Ang Lee’s Lust Caution- 色.戒 Se, jie. There is a scene where the protagonists meet for the first time in the bedroom, and there is this incredible power play, There is resistance, bondage, domination and finally submission, it’s explosive and breathtaking, who could ask for more. Check it out:
It can be watched here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1znKZ-CGTQ
Lady Lavinia- Lavinia Dos Remedios
March 10th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
I also love that scene in Quentin Tarantino’s Grindhouse- Deathproof, where Vanessa Felito give Russell
Crowe the lap-dance of his life to this incredible Coasters track ‘Down in Mexico’- pure class.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4a-PxP9HWI
Lady Lavinia
March 10th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
Finally the antics of Maggie Gyllenhaal and James Spader in the bondage romcom The Secretary deserve a mention for its dark humour and brilliance.
P.s Harriet that Strictly Scene rocks - “love is in the air
Govind Naidu
March 10th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
has to be David Lynch’s Mulholand drive between Laura Elena Harring who’s got amnesia and Naomi Watts…playful, erotic and eruption of pure, palpable sex
Helen Jack
March 12th, 2009 at 9:53 am
The sex scene in Red Road (dir. Andrea Arnold) is great. Put within the context of the story (I wont give away the ending) it’s incredibly tense and very erotic. It’s also quite distinctly directed by a woman - the focus on Katie Dickie’s face, the focus on her pleasure…more of these films please.
Also, the sex scene in Morvern Callar (dir. Lynne Ramsay) is a good example. The two characters come together (excuse the pun) out of nowhere, and then part never seeing each other again.
Oh, and I second Tamsyn on Brokeback.
Ilexis Kleinman
March 12th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
I have two that are great… one is “The Wedding Date” with Dermot Mulroney and Debra Messing. It is very sensual and sweet. Looks like it was directed by a woman. The other one is “Taking Lives with Angelina Jolie and is more take action and tense. GREAT!
Rachel Stein
March 12th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
Definitely The Notebook with Rachel Mcadams and Ryan Gosling. You can’t get two better looking people together, especially combined with their sexual tension, desire, and emotion. Fabulous.
Tiffanie Wright
March 13th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
Quite a few great moments to choose from but one that really sticks with me, and I’m probably being really cheesy, but the ‘library’ scene in Atonement made me pretty warm and fuzzy. Even though Knightly usually leaves me very cold, I think McAvoy heated it up nicely for the both of them. Altogether now- AHhhhh!
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