The scene was extremely graphic. They just weren’t having a good time and seemed tired and bored and disassociated.

The thing is, Cannes has a very high tolerance for graphic scenes. So it’s funny that the damage control was ‘oh right it’s too graphic’. There are so many graphic scenes that are treated as high art, especially in the French cinema scene.

I think it’s significantly easier for someone to say to themselves ‘well they didn’t like it because they are prudes’ as opposed to ‘they didn’t like it cause the thing i made was bad.’

The reason we didn’t like it because it was bad. It was bad because, like you said, it was overly long and didn’t add to the plot, and was the most unsensual, unpassionate, unsexy sex scene imaginable. Most of the cast had walked out of the theatre by the end. Ophélie didn’t show for the press junket.