Naked in New York: Gérard Depardieu strips for the big screen

Softcore scenes in arthouse movies lost their power to shock a long time ago, but the naked body can still leave you reeling, as Gérard Depardieu's eye-popping performance in Welcome to New York demonstrates Gérard Depardieu's striptease takes place in a tent on the beach, cunningly disguised as a motion picture premiere. There on screen, the ageing bull of French cinema literally and metaphorically exposes himself, turning left and right to show the ravages of time. Depardieu looks like hell ...