In which 1973 thriller film directed by Nicolas Roeg was there an explicit sex scene between Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie?
Julie Christie collaborations between Christie and Warren Beatty, who described her as "the most beautiful and at the same time the most nervous person I had ever known". The couple had a high-profile but intermittent relationship between 1967 and 1974. After the relationship ended, they worked together again in the comedies "Shampoo" (1975) and "Heaven Can Wait" (1978). Her other films during the decade were Nicolas Roeg's thriller "Don't Look Now " (1973), in which she co-starred with Donald Sutherland, and the science-fiction/horror film "Demon Seed" (1977), based on the novel of the same name by Dean Koontz and directed by Donald
Nicolas Roeg short story of the same name and starred Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland as a married couple in Venice mourning the death of their daughter who had drowned. It attracted scrutiny early on due to a sex scene between Sutherland and Christie, which was unusually explicit for the time. Roeg's decision to inter-cut the sexual intercourse with shots of the couple dressing afterwards was reportedly due to the need to assuage the fears of the censors and there were rumours at the time of its release that the sex was unsimulated. The film was widely praised by critics and considered