What’s to Love about European Cinema? The Sex, Baby, the Sex

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Let’s be realistic. Artsy qualities aside, one of the biggest selling-points for European films in the US market are the sex scenes. The hot, steamy, sometimes seamy or wholly improbable sex scenes.

With that in mind, YouTube user EUTube released a montage called Film Lovers Will Love This!, in which a bunch of steamy moments from EU films (well, mainly Amelie) are knitted together to join in one harmonious slogan: “Let’s come together.”

Supporters call it a celebration of European cinema but British Conservative MEP Chris Heaton-Harris called it a “cobbling-together” of “44 seconds of soft porn” that wastes taxpayers’ money and does nothing to solve the European film industry’s “image problem.”

We figure it’s a little lopsided to glean quotes from a British publication when it’s the Italians, Spaniards and French doing all the grunt work. After all, where do you find those racy PSAs we love so much? Not at the home of Big Ben.

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