Shades Of Sex At Sundance

A Hollywood Reporter think piece asks: ‘Straight, gay, adulterous, orgiastic, athletic, analyzed and agonized over: almost everybody onscreen at Sundance this year seems to be doing it. Is American film finally shedding its Puritanism?’ Excuse me, but there’s nothing more Puritanical than oohing and aahing about sex. Any normal person just thinks of it as part of life — like other wonderful, sometimes troublesome daily acts: eating, sleeping, breathing. And American movies have had plenty of sex for decades.

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