The camera focuses on the girls’ nervous, thrilled faces, rather than panning breathlessly down their bodies. The sex is subtle and nuanced, the result of two young women clumsily figuring out how to please each other. Early on in the film, Cameron and Coley tentatively make love for the first time in the back seat of a car. Her film, The Miseducation of Cameron Post, tells the story of a teen girl (Chloë Grace Moretz) sent to gay conversion camp after she’s caught sleeping with her female best friend. In 2018, Desiree Akhavan shot a very different lesbian sex scene. Kechiche’s desires than anything else.” Even Julie Maroh, the author of the novel the film was based on, weighed in, arguing that the scene was “a brutal and surgical display, exuberant and cold, of so-called lesbian sex.” She added, “This was what was missing on the set: lesbians.” The scene was immediately controversial, with critics like Manohla Dargis writing that “the movie feels far more about Mr. In it, the two leads, Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos, engage in an exhausting bout of scissoring, a lesbian sex act that primarily exists in the minds of men. In 2013, Abdellatif Kechiche’s lesbian love story Blue Is the Warmest Color set Cannes aflame, in part thanks to an explicit, seven-minute sex scene.
