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Los Angeles (Reuters) – Since its debut at the Cannes film festival in May, director John Cameron Mitchell’s film “Shortbus” has been labelled many things for its full on depictions of sex including porn for everyday audiences.
But Mitchell, whose first film “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” in 2001 became a cause celebre among fans of movies made outside Hollywood, said the movie is far from pornography because it uses sex with artistic licence to comment on how people’s lives are impacted by sexual thoughts and feelings.
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Moreover, he argues he did not make the movie with mainstream audiences in mind.
“The very explicitness of the sex limits the audience, which is fine,” Mitchell said.