How to Have Sex
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Three British teenage girls go on a rites-of-passage of holiday, in pursuit of drinks, sun and sex at a Cretan resort. As they dance their way across the sun-drenched streets, the find themselves navigating the complexities of sex, consent and self discovery.
Captured with luminous visuals and a pitch-perfect soundtrack, Manning Walker's directorial debut paints a painfully familiar portrait of young adulthood, and how first sexual experiences should or shouldn't play out.
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“Molly Manning Walker is the complete package: a storyteller with an acute ear for youth vernacular; a film-maker with a gift for capturing images that sear themselves into your eyes, while also filling each frame with a sensory overload of energy and movement; and a director who can tease remarkably intimate and revealing moments from actors while simultaneously marshalling a club full of several hundred hard-partying extras.”
Wendy Ide, The Observer
“McKenna-Bruce’s fearless lead is both emotionally exposing and very finely calibrated, slipping from exuberance to anxiety to desperation sometimes in a single shot.”
Jonathan Romney, FT
“Rarely are we given such a powerful, raw examination of British girlhood, and Manning Walker’s film only emphasises the desperate need for more female-directed stories to be told.”
Aimee Ferrier, Far Out
