(Entertainment-NewsWire.com, February 01, 2013 ) San Francisco, CA -- The Sundance Film Festival is looking to up the ante when it comes to sexy, as the annual independent-film showcase is set to feature a assortment of sexually themed movies from the various categories.
There are stories using sex in the workplace, who use it to work through a mid-life crisis, a narrative documnetary examining pornography, and a coming-of-age tale wherein sex plays a central role, as it so-often does.
Robert Redford, who is founder of the new heralded yearly event, stated that the on-screen sex of today is nearly devoid of romance that was infused into movie depictions in the late 1960s, when he began his movie-making career.
So what is is that inspired this “sexual revolution” at the film festival?
"When I got in the film business in the early `60s, it was a romantic time. Sex and romance were pretty well tied together; sexuality was pretty well expressed through romance. Times have changed, so now, 40, 50 years later, we see that sexual relations have moved to a place where it doesn't feel like there's so much romance involved. The romance is not part of the equation, because relations have changed, and they've changed because of changing times, and because of new technology. People are texting rather than dating and all that kind of stuff. So what we do, we just show what's there." – Sundance founder Robert Redford.
Hollywood starlet Kristen Bell stated her own feelings on the matter. "It's relevant because people just started having sex. So I think because of that, because everyone just started having sex, it's extremely relevant right now." Bell is the star of dramatic contender "The Lifeguard."
"I wanted to tell a story about how we work as human beings, and let's face it, that's what drives a lot of us. And what I was trying to get at with `Don Jon's Addiction' is, yeah, let's talk about sex but let's really talk about it and not just go through the same cliches that we always go through. ... Those of us (who) – and we all do – consume this media, whether it's movies or porn or the news or, you know, the Bible, we consume these pieces of media and we form these rules for ourselves, these notions of how things are supposed to be. And to me, there's nothing less sexy than trying to fit in what you think you're supposed to be. What's sexy is when you're just being yourself and you're connecting in the present." – Joseph Gordon-Levitt, director, writer and star of "Don Jon's Addiction."