Majid (Mehdi Dahmane) and Salim (Sidi Mejai), the characters who occupy the head-spinningly raunchy center of “Sextape” — along with their girlfriends, Rim (Inas Chanti) and Yasmina (Souad Arsane), who are sisters — have the distinction of being two of the most flippantly insensitive young male dicks ever seen in the movies. They’re over-the-top, without scruples or shame; whatever happens, they don’t give a f—k. Yet the joke is that there’s nothing too remarkable about them. As the film presents it, they’re cads of their generation, bros who grew up on hardcore amateur video and the brotherhood of frat-house misogyny (a value system so widespread that it no longer requires spending time in an actual frat house), where girls are treated like fleshbot mannequins.
Half the conversation in “Sextape” is about blowjobs — how to get them, who’s going to give them — and it’s funny, for a while,...
Half the conversation in “Sextape” is about blowjobs — how to get them, who’s going to give them — and it’s funny, for a while,...
- 5/10/2018
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
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