Missionary impossible: Emma Thompson excels in sex dramedy
A fashionable romantic cliché in both film and television has a pair of would-be lovers dreamily letting themselves into an empty room, ripping off one another’s clothes and having frenzied sex on every available surface., in which Emma Thompson gets together with a male sex worker, is not like that. Written by British comic Katy Brand and deftly directed by Australia’s Sophie Hyde, it succeeds in resisting all the familiar cliches about love and sex.
Nancy’s first hurdle is to get over her embarrassment at the contrast between Leo’s physical perfection and the signs of wear and tear that the passing years have stamped on her own body. As they both stand gazing into the mirror, she finally concedes, with Leo’s encouragement, that she quite likes her calves. It’s a decisive breakthrough.
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