2009/04/02 New York
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Sorrows

Tonight I saw one of the best sex scenes I have seen in months, maybe years. It’s a scene from the French movie “Shall we kiss?” or “Un baiser s'il vous plait” by Emmanuel Mouret.
It not is a steaming sex scene, thank god not. The stiffness, the awkwardness and the clumsiness of sex with a person you usually have coffee with are portrayed extremely well.
The movie itself is much better than the reviews promised.
What’s more appealing than a kiss without consequences, asks Emmanuel Mouret.
Unfortunately often we want more, after the first satisfying kiss. This is the source of our sorrows. Or so Mr. Mouret seems to think.


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I saw it on Saturday. Impressive movie. The genre romantic comedy is not so empty as I thought. Why is it that here in NY people go to the movie half an hour before even the pre-preview advertisements start?
Arnon, what is your favorite cinema in New York?
said David R 02/04/2009 06:45 • x
oxytocin
said Neria Biala 02/04/2009 09:21 • x
M. van Eeten wrote some very good, but sick, sex-scenes in his novel. You should read it.
said Dens Powells 02/04/2009 15:10 • x
David
Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, Film Forum, Walter Reade.
I have nothing against Kips Bay either.
said Arnon Grunberg 02/04/2009 15:24 • x
Dens
When is a sex scene "sick" in your opinion?
said Arnon Grunberg 02/04/2009 15:25 • x
Sick
Yes Dens, I'm curious too. Remember you are talking to the guy who wrote a scene in which the protagonist sits between the opened legs of a woman, holding little burning candles in his hands, mumbling: We have to wall this thing shut. The cunt is the spot where evil comes from.
said Michel van Eeten 02/04/2009 16:39 (Updated 16:39) • x
To Van Eeten
Would you fresh up my memory in which novel that was.
said Pjötr Nembkow 02/04/2009 20:10 • x
Pjotr
The Jewish Messiah.
said Michel van Eeten 02/04/2009 21:30 • x
Walling up a cunt isn't that sick, because it is more funny than sick; Sex is sick when you feel you're crossing a boundry, I guess. Not for the reader, but for the protagonist experiencing the boundry. I feel I could try any kind of sex.

(I didn't want to promote M.v.E's novel as such, it just suited the occasion, I think).
said Dens Powells 02/04/2009 22:28 • x
Had a kind of awkward sex, yesterday. Sometimes one needs a setback.
By the way, my mother considered the phallus as the root of evil, the Spear of Longinus.
said Bernard f 03/04/2009 08:57 • x
baise-moi and un baiser. It's from the same verb, though it has a different meaning. That's quite odd, isn't it?
said Dens Powells 03/04/2009 14:13 • x
Bernard
When is sex awkward?
said Arnon Grunberg 03/04/2009 16:37 • x
@Arnon
(Awkward: ungraceful; ungainly; clumsily or unskillfully performed; marked by or causing embarrassment or discomfort.)
Someone here spoke about sex (for men) as a performance. Imagine you give a reading before a totally uninterested, yet polite audience. Whatever you try, you cannot light the fire. No sparks, no magic. After a while, you ask yourself, “What am I doing here?” But you are a decent guy, you fulfill your duty and leave the stage like a gentleman.
On the way home, you think: “My God, this was awful.”
said Bernard f 03/04/2009 17:30 • x
Ha ha ha
said macha v. B 04/04/2009 17:48 • x
Sounds like a nightmare.
said macha v. B 04/04/2009 17:59 • x
are there limits to sex for you, Mr. Arnon?
said Dens Powells 05/04/2009 18:28 • x
Dens
I really dislike killing people.
said Arnon Grunberg 06/04/2009 02:57 • x
I can imagine. I don't think I dislike it so much. Of course I have never killed anyone, and I don't intend do. But last night I dreamed about a girl who was a serial killer. And though she was a bit too ugly for my liking and she probably had a sweat-cunt, There was some erotica to it.
She had it in for redheads. Unfortunately someone woke me up by phoning me.
said Dens Powells 06/04/2009 11:24 • x
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