Masturbanthology: MOVIES

28 September 2012

VIP CONFESSIONS - Juliette Binoche talks about masturbation in "Elles"!

I think the scene in "Elles" where your character masturbates is interesting because it represents a self-love that you have to maintain when other relationships fall apart. Was that hard to film?

"Malgorzata Szumowska, the director, wanted to go in another room and watch the monitor, saying, "I’m going to leave you to do the scene and I’m going to watch it." I said, "No way, darling. You’re going to stay with me. You wrote the scene, I didn’t write. You had the courage to write this scene; you have the courage to stay with me."

She gave me a DVD of different girls’ faces going through masturbation that she found on the internet, and it was fascinating, almost [like] an art form. You see the girls go through birth, and through dying, as well.

The responsibility for telling the story is bigger than the difficulty of it. You raise into another gear, into another purpose. This woman is so lost, doesn’t feel her body, her heart. It’s very disturbing.

At the end, she feels even more alone; the masturbation is not fulfilling. Because what is a sexual relationship? Is it taking pleasure out of the other person’s body? Or using the other for your own pleasure? Or is it a sharing on another level? Is it reaching some other world? If you touch the other world with somebody, it’s very intimate; it’s very special. If it’s coming out of "I pay you money and I have my pleasure"—that’s another gear".

("Vanity Fair")

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