In reference to the sex scene between Valentina Vargas and Christian Slater, director Jean-Jacques Annaud said: "What interested me was not the moment of the act but it was the tenderness after the act. I had placed my cameras for 'the end' so I ask them to make a little connection with a kiss, then to have a moment of rest, where the bodies come off. And I start to turn, they kiss, and I tell them in a soft voice, I'm close to them, to now pull away. And nothing happens. I think then that they need a little more time, a minute later I tell them 'it's fine now we're going to stop', and it doesn't stop ... I say 'good!' in a louder voice, 'now it's good we're going to cut soon'. Nothing happens ... It's been 9'30 minutes, and there Valentina gets up, she sees that I'm there, discovers me in a certain way, she discovers the cameras and she says to me: 'Is it OK?' ... 'Valentina, I've been happy for ten minutes already.' (...) Nothing happened physically, but psychologically everything was there ... "

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