Having been forced to cancel last year’s Cannes due to the pandemic, 2021 is proving to be a happy nude year for the festival with this edition’s most talked-about film, “Benedetta,” featuring a pair of romping nuns.Even the outwardly gentle period drama “Mothering Sunday” is unabashed about displaying the human body in all its glory, with both Josh O’Connor (“The Crown”) and Odessa Young (“Shirley”) going full-frontal in the film.Perhaps it’s a response to the time we’re living in, where even Cannes’ trademark cheek-to-cheek kisses on the red carpet are now verboten, although Husson, who filmed “Mothering Sunday” between the U.K.’s first and second lockdowns last fall, puts the film’s liberal nudity down to her (French/Spanish) upbringing.“I have a family culture of nudity in the sense that nudity was always something very natural and nothing to be ashamed of,” she told Variety.
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