How Indie Films Are Fixing Hollywood’s Intimacy Problem

Intimate scenes on screen have been a hot topic of conversation for years. After seemingly falling out of fashion for a while, it looks like sex scenes are making a comeback in one arena: prestige indie films (like Passengers, Poor Things and Blue Valentine). So what’s really going on here, and what's the right balance between totally sexless and totally oversexed?

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CHAPTERS
00:00 Hollywood's big intimacy issue
00:28 Too boring or too smutty?
02:06 The decline of sexy films
05:40 What indies get right about intimacy
07:58 Less male gaze, more humanity

CREDITS
Executive Producers: Debra Minoff & Susannah McCullough
Chief Creative Director: Susannah McCullough
Associate Producer: Tyler Allen
Writer: Faith Terrill
Narrator: Kayah Franklin
Video Editor: Dan Wolff

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