An exploration of the dominance and submission lifestyle as revealed in the best-selling book trilogy 'Fifty Shades of Grey.' In this film, real women and men reveal their experiences, wants and desires as dominant and submissive participants. An homage to the erotically charged films of the '60s and '70s, it stars Sidse Babett Knudsen as a successful scientist and butterfly scholar and Chiara D'Anna as her young, impressionable sexual partner, as the two play increasingly complex sub/dom scenarios, and try to maintain the throughline of their relationship, even as the tenements and rules shift constantly between them.Ĭomparison: In the first installment of the Fifty Shades saga, Christian is just beginning to teach Anastasia the ways of the successful submissive, so what's depicted in Duke is a good deal more advanced (and, in must be said, psychologically nuanced), but you can still thrill to the ever-changing relationship dynamic, where the lines blur between who is actually calling the shots and whose dutifully obeying them. Inside the 50 Shades: Real Women Confess: With Louisa Riofrio, D.K., Natalie Lust, Ms. Then you should like: Peter Strickland's festival favorite, which made several critics' year-end lists, is an odd puzzle of a film. If you like: BDSM games between two consenting adults. The actor played the titular character in Fifty Shades of Grey, a film franchise that earned. ( Available on Netflix Instant Streaming.) Jamie Dornan is coming clean about his time as Christian Grey. Fifty Shades naturally is far more circumspect (the quick tufts of pubic hair you see on the two principles were strictly negotiated), but does more or less center itself on the erotic charge of their first encounter about mid-way through the film, which seems to go on for an extended period of time.
Then you should like: This Cannes Palm d'Or winner from a couple years back earned all sorts of ire, first from the two female stars (Léa Seydoux and Adéle Exarchopoulos), who felt the director Abdellatif Kechiche exploited them, then by the director himself, who renounced the entire enterprise by way of rebuttal, but it remains a powerful, erotic tale of the cycle of a young romance gone awry.Ĭomparison: The centerpiece of the film-much like the sexual centerpiece of Fifty Shades-is an extended (all together now: extremely graphic) sex scene between the two women that goes on for some long number of minutes and seems anything but simulated. If you like: Beautiful, young and inexperienced women falling head over heels in love with older, far more experienced lovers-and very graphic lesbian sex.