[Trailer NSFW.] Hardcore French satire. That is, a simultaneously blistering and pitying take on Young People Today from cinematic provocateur Gaspar Noe (Enter the Void) that regularly features erect penises, sexual congress, and ejaculation. Man-behind-the-meat Murphy (Karl Glusman) is a comically self-regarding and immature American film student living in Paris who takes up with a needy pleaser named Electra (Aomi Muyock). (Ding ding ding!) Just how self-regarding and immature is he? When she gets mad at him after he seeks out and knocks up the teenage blonde they threesomed with, he cries out, “I’m the one who’s hurting here!” Electra diagnoses Murphy early on as “an amazing guy who doesn’t know what love is,” and the rest of the film serves as explicit illustration. Why so explicit? Because, Noe might reply, that’s what love looks and feels like for a generation raised on porn, self-affirmation, and hookups. The old (and secret) meanings behind matings have been stripped away, so why bother making the camera avert its gaze? (If the charges are exaggerated, it’s also easy to imagine Noe enjoying the exaggeration.) As usual, it’s all fun and games until somebody takes a stand and/or has a baby. (2015) — Matthew Lickona