“How to Have Sex”, in the cinema. Touching drama about a teenager’s fateful attempt to have sex for the first time while on vacation.
If you look at the earth from above to understand human activity, you might think here and there, OK, yes, a few things aren’t so bad after all, they’re pretty decent. Then, oh dear, in other places the question arises as to what the hell is wrong with people, for example around the Mediterranean in Benidorm, El Arenal, Lloret de Mar or Magaluf. From spring to autumn, mass drinking events for young people from all over Europe take place there every day and night.
What is sold as paradise turns out to be a gateway to consumption and fun hell. Do you perhaps have to go through this once in your youth in order to then be able to participate in capitalism as a slightly damaged version of yourself? Is the Ballermann actually an initiation ritual for our dysfunctional society?
The film “How to Have Sex” follows three young English women on such a trip to Crete. The 16-year-old’s declared goal is sex and drinking. This setting alone sounds terrible and you ask yourself, while the first disco night is blasting across the screen with Euro dance hits, why you should watch the three of them drunkenly fucking each other through trash-filled cheap holiday resorts. The answer is: Because it is a woman who is directing this film and this film succeeds in doing something that other films have failed to do for decades, namely taking women seriously. (Also read: These are the best films about love that don’t involve kitsch)
“How to Have Sex” in the cinema: Crash with announcement
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Vacation as an expense
The first minutes of “How to Have Sex” reveal a closeness to its protagonists that is more reminiscent of a report than the conventions of cinema. Just as a good report does not glorify the people it observes, this film also seems to let its three young women be who they are.
2023-12-22 14:32:03
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