I do wonder if arousal and an intent to arouse sexual feelings will ever be taken as a serious and legitimate pursuit in filmmaking. Even the actress who stars in Nine Songs will tell you there in the behind the scenes “No one comes out of the cinema turned on…”.

God forbid that that should be the case! It’s a strange world. Maybe as time goes by sex in films might gain currency to the point that just every now and then a filmmaker can sneak one in that’s a bit more joyous. Occasionally I see moments of it in films like Gadjo dilo, or even Sex and Lucia, in the first case, an earthy, boistrous regard for sex buried within a complex little film with a good deal of sadness and the latter, a more playful, flirtacious take on sex within a film that’s almost indecipherable. I think that’s one of the reasons I liked Nine Songs - it’s simple and even if they didn’t set out to turn me on, I liked the sex.