THEThe sun, the sea, the holidays in the disco. The typical coordinates of an adolescent holiday, full of euphoria and freedom, which in How to have sex From evasion from reality it soon turned into A bitter awareness. The film, directed by the debutant Molly Manning Walker and winner of the section A Certain Regard in Cannes 2023, it airs tonight on heaven at 9.20 pm.
How to have sex, the plot
Three sixteen -year -old friends, Tara, em, and skye, arrive in Crete for one fun holidaybetween alcohol, night clubs, new friendships and new cooked. For Tara, the only Virgin of the group, the festive atmosphere mixes with anxiety and social pressurewho push her to exploit the opportunity to have her first experience. However, the context is not the best: the young woman will learn it on her own skin, rethinking herself and her own bonds.
How to have sex, the review
The first images of the film, with the sun that radiates the bodies in the middle of the sea, graft An atmosphere as naturalistic as it is nostalgicrecalling the previous one Aftersunalso a story of a summer holiday in Greece. The young protagonists and the fact that the director is attached to them, following them in the frenzy, are instead indebted to Mektoub, My Lovewhile the discos filter can make you think of Spring Breakers. Youth fun story models to which Have How To Sex It is inspired, while implementing a significant change of course.
In fact, if often in this setting we witness stories of boys looking for girls, the opposite happens here, e several times the perspective of the protagoniststo explicit the reversal. Especially that of Tara is also marked not by voracious attitudebut from fragility and insecurity. She expresses a different sensitivity compared to friends, appearing foreign body. A profound discomfort emerges, resulting from feeling out of place, by being overwhelmed by the vortex of the euphoria, as attractive as it is dangerous, from which it is impossible to get out. Thus, even the entire context in which he moves shows his cracks and distortions.
Mia McKenna-Bruce (Tara) in an image of the film (Theodora)
Despite the apparent self -determination, Tara is destined to become a victim, due to prevarications and expectations far from being overcome. How to have sex It is therefore a movie with a Very strong and important theme and messagetransmitted in a sincere and direct and non -didactic way. In fact, the director of the director seems to arise from Tara herself, without warnings to be imparted as much as a lucid awareness that is gradually outlined.
The cast: the discovery of a new talent
To interpret Tara we find Mia McKenna-Bruce which together with Walker is the dazzling discovery of How to have sex. The young actress, who had previously taken part in the adaptation of Persuasion With Dakota Johnson, he manages to effectively transmit all the emotions experienced by his character, a trial not a small thing. Next to her, we find Lara Peake (Skye) Enva Lewis (EM) and Samuel Bottomley (Paddy).
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