Title: How to Have Sex
Year: 2023
Running Time: 91′
Country: United Kingdom
Directed by: Molly Manning Walker
Written by: Molly Manning Walker
Starring: Mia McKenna-Bruce; Shaun Thomas; Lara Peake; Enva Lewis; Samuel Bottomley; Laura Ambler
© 2023 Film4 / British Film Institute (BFI) / Heretic / Wild Swim Films.
Review by Guifré Margarit i Contel | 21 October 2023
Manning Walker adopts the aesthetics of Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine, 2012), but delicately and appropriately injects a social commentary spin, delving into the subjects of teenage sexuality, rape, and consent.
While this choice in visual presentation, as well as the way some essential sequences are shot, seems to soften the powerful message, the great lead performance by Mia McKenna-Bruce compensates for much of it.