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July 17, 2005
Fringe, Festival, frolic: You don't always orgasm
Writer-director Annie Griffin tells the UK's Future Movies about her sexually explicit comedy, Festival, a send-up of the goings-on at Edinburgh's Fringe Festival: "Arts Festivals, like conferences, are a holiday from reality, and one of the things that happens on holiday is sex... Griffin [pushes] boundaries... there are several scenes of oral sex, and she has... managed to get fisting past the censor. And then there’s the enormous penis that hoves unexpectedly into view. She dismisses this airily: “The battle with the censors was won three years ago – with Intimacy– which had a real erect penis. In a way, I don’t want to talk about the prosthetic penis too much. People don’t notice, but in the oral sex scene, there’s a lot of pubic hair – it’s actually a prosthetic vagina. The camera was on Daniela’s chest, with Chris (O’Dowd) between her legs’ - she demonstrates the position – “She’s wearing boxer shorts. She thought it was insane initially but actually it worked very well because otherwise she would have Chris O’Dowd staring at her crotch for four hours. This meant that he could play with the pussy, but it wasn’t her. And that worked for Lucy Punch as well.” ...Griffin feels that male directors are responsible for the pornographic, euphoric, artificial depiction of sex in the movies. “There’s this big lie about sex, that we all get transported to another plane when we orgasm, but actually you don’t always orgasm, and the first time you have sex with someone its usually so embarrassing and awkward and its all about miscommunication. ‘When we take off our clothes we have union’, no, that’s bullshit. And any human being with a sexual history knows that’s not what happens, so why do we have to pretend that it all goes so perfectly?”
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