Director Gaspar Noé explains why real sex scenes were filmed for Love movie

Despite the real sex scenes, Gaspar Noé insists his much-discussed film is very different from a porn movie, writes Helen Barlow

WHEN Gaspar Noé’s Love premiered in Cannes last May the film’s mostly unsimulated sex, all filmed in graphic 3D, had journalists reaching for their laptops.

Cannes topper Thierry Frémaux had naturally been keen to program the film after the festival’s 2013 explicit lesbian drama, Blue is the Warmest Colour, had been a last-minute sensation, coming out of nowhere to win the coveted Palme d’Or.