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How to Have Sex

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Three British teenage girls go on a rites-of-passage holiday -- drinking, clubbing and hooking up, in what should be the best summer of their lives.
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A powerful debut for Molly Manning Walker, How to Have Sex authentically captures female adolescence and friendship with sobering effervescence.

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Wenlei Ma The Nightly (AU) It’s naturalistic, thoughtful, and deeply, deeply uncomfortable because there are familiar behaviours that almost anyone will remember from their own adolescence — and wish they could forget. Rated: 3.5/5 Mar 10, 2024 Full Review Geordie Gray The Australian This film marks Molly Manning Walker as a director to watch. Rated: 3.5/5 Feb 24, 2024 Full Review Randy Myers San Jose Mercury News Walker realizes this is risky material but she avoids sensationalism in charting Tara’s treacherous journey, one that requires lead McKenna-Bryce to crawl into tough emotional spaces. Rated: 3.5/4 Feb 15, 2024 Full Review Abe Friedtanzer Cinema Daily US This film and its cast compellingly convey the importance of telling the truth and of looking at events through the proper lens, one that assigns blame to those who do wrong and not those without the ability to stop them. Rated: B+ Jul 27, 2024 Full Review Brittany Patrice Witherspoon Pop Culture Reviews Director Walker does something really special within How to Have Sex. She demonstrates the importance of true friendship and allyship which all simply boils down to ‘women looking out for women.’ Rated: 4/5 Jul 26, 2024 Full Review Carla Monfort Espinof Provides a fresh and at the same time forceful perspective on a subject that we have already seen many times in the cinema. [Full review in Spanish] Jul 22, 2024 Full Review Read all reviews

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Ghederick Eshmont The film’s brilliance is evident in its nuance & what’s left unsaid by Tara. Molly Manning-Walker’s debut is exceptional. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/04/24 Full Review Fong Kok Hoong F Winner of 2023 Un Certain Regard Award at Cannes, Molly Manning Walker's directorial debut is a searingly honest and frighteningly realistic essay about girls' sexual pressure and consent when a trio of teenage schoolgirls goes on the "best holiday ever" in Malia to club, drink and hook up in their post-GCSE celebration of newfound freedom. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 10/03/24 Full Review julie b In 85 mins this packs a PUNCH. I felt like I couldn’t breathe the whole time and it broke my heart. The neon lights, the music, the perfectly captured loneliness in a crowded room, pressures of being a teen/partying/hooking up, kindness of strangers, shittiness of friends, etc. Mia Mckenna Bruce’s expression and eyes say it all. Hope this sparks more conversation than division / demonization. “Would you rather be a baby goat or a mata baby” Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 09/19/24 Full Review Dani G Chaotic edition, sometimes exhausting narrative, and with some kind of message (?) in the end Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 08/22/24 Full Review d m #Recommended 6/10 Rated 3 out of 5 stars 07/20/24 Full Review David F Kind of a British Spring Breakers. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 06/17/24 Full Review Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis Three British teenage girls go on a rites-of-passage holiday -- drinking, clubbing and hooking up, in what should be the best summer of their lives.
Director
Molly Manning Walker
Producer
Konstantinos Kontovrakis, Emily Leo, Ivana Mackinnon
Screenwriter
Molly Manning Walker, Molly Manning Walker
Distributor
MUBI
Production Co
British Film Institute, Heretic, Film4
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Feb 2, 2024, Limited
Box Office (Gross USA)
$177.4K
Runtime
1h 38m
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