KNIGHT OF CUPS: A 'Porn Film'

KNIGHT OF CUPS: A 'PORN FILM'

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HOLLYWOOD - Showing at Cannes this year, Terrence Malick's new film Knight of Cups is a hardcore porn film according to actor Christian Bale. Speaking in an interview with French Cultural magazine Chapeau, the Dark Knight actor stated bluntly: 'I have sex with lots of women. And that's basically it.'

Very little is known about the film, except for the bare bones of the plot, which has Christian Bale working in the music industry and having relationships with a series of women, including Natalie Portman, Freida Pinto and Cate Blanchett. Later in the interview, Bale gives some idea of Malick's motivation for the extraordinary genre shift:

When Tree of Life came out, Terry was a bit nonplussed that Lars Von Trier hogged the limelight with his Nazi gaffes and Melancholia, which some thought was a better film. So once he heard Lars had done Nymphomaniac he phoned me up and said 'Right Christian, drop the Heidegger and strip!'

However, fans of Malick needn't worry about the new direction the film is taking.

Once we did all the sex scenes, and there are many and they're all very explicit. But once we'd done them, Terry got us all in the recording studio for two weeks and we dubbed hours and hours of whispered voice over.

Philosophical stuff? Spiritual yearning?

Erm. No, not really. More, 'Oooh that's a big one' and 'Mmmmm lovely tits'. Tastefully done mind you. Tons of Goreki.

The Knight of Cups will show at the Cannes Film Festival in May.