There has been no shortage of graphic sex scenes at Cannes Film Festival over the years. Think back to Gaspar Noé’s pornographic Love, for which 3-D glasses were handed out at its screening in 2015 so that one ejaculatory shot felt like it was aimed at the audience.

Or to 2013's Palme d'Or winning drama Blue is the Warmest Colour, which includes a seven-minute scene between two French lesbian lovers that is hard to forget. Then, at last year's festival, there was the outrageous lesbian-discovery sequence in The Handmaiden, Park Chan-Wook’s lascivious period thriller.

Point is, Cannes and cinematic carnality are old friends. Taking the prize for Most Sexually Shocking Film this year is Francois Ozon's L’Amant Double, a psycho-suspense thriller that opens with an extreme close-up of Marine Vacth's vagina.