Every so often a scene gets paired with a song that, for better or worse, ends up making it that much more memorable, and while this week’spick may be more of a hidden gem, that doesn’t make it any less ridiculous. We present for your viewing pleasure, French fantasy Sophie Marceau fully nude and rolling around in bed with John Malkovich in the 1995 film Beyond the Clouds.
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It’s pretty normal as nude scenes go, and the camera does not hold back on capturing every inch of Sophie’s beautiful bare body. It’s only when you realize the music during their bedroom romp is a weird instrumental version of Van Morrison’s “Have I Told You Lately” that it starts to get questionable.
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The film is essentially a quartet of stories all being contemplated by Malkovich’s film director character after landing in Italy where he meets story number two’s “The Girl” aka Sophie and the duo go back to her place and start boning. It’s directed by famous Italian auteur Michelangelo Antonioni, who helmed the 1970 film Zabriskie Point, which has a famous soundtrack provided by tons of big name musical acts, notably Pink Floyd, The Grateful Dead, and The Rolling Stones. Surely he could’ve gotten Van Morrison or even used Rod Stewart’s popular version from 1993. So why does it sound like they’re making love in an elevator or a dentist’s waiting room?
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And if we’re to presume that Antonioni didn’t want to distract from Sophie’s prominently sexy boobs, buns, and bush - a hard feat, indeed - why not choose something less recognizable? Especially since I’m pretty sure the thing that Sophie does tell John lately is not that she loves him, but that she stabbed her dad twelve times. Which apparently is not a turn off in this case.
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The song even continues post-sex, as she walks, still naked, to the window to watch him leave and then forlornly turns away, given us one last look at her French fanny, funbags and fur pie. It feels like an attempt to turn the tune tragic somehow just by the scene alone, despite the brain knowing that it’s a ballad of love. It’s also admittedly really hard to be sad looking at Sophie Marceau nude. Amiright??
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Catch Up With Previous Editions of Songs in the Key of Nudity
—Naked Jennifer Jason Leigh's Gotta Be Somebody's Baby
—Antichrist's Operatic Real Sex Opener
