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Sex is back in the movies, and the Irish have a lot to do with it

Donald Clarke: Hollywood’s treating us like infants. And too many of us like it that way

Kathryn Hunter and Emma Stone in Yorgos Lanthimos’s brilliant film Poor Things, which has astonished some critics with its sexual scenes. Photograph: Yorgos Lanthimos/Searchlight/20th Century Studios
Kathryn Hunter and Emma Stone in Yorgos Lanthimos’s brilliant film Poor Things, which has astonished some critics with its sexual scenes. Photograph: Yorgos Lanthimos/Searchlight/20th Century Studios
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Sun Oct 29 2023 - 05:15 • 4 MIN READ

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