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TIFF 2012: ‘The Sessions’ is quietly humble, yet raucous with pathos
The Sessions Directed by Ben Lewin Written by Ben Lewin USA, 2012 All animals have sex for reproduction. Some even have sex for pleasure. But human beings are distinct and distinguishable as the only species on earth that has sex for love. As a physical manifestation of our desires, and as a way of expressing […] More
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Sundance 2012: ‘The Surrogate’ a film about sex for romantics
The Surrogate Directed by Ben Lewin Screenplay by Ben Lewin 2012, USA John Hawkes (of Deadwood and from last year’s Martha Marcy May Marlene) portrays Mark O’Brien, a real life poet and advocate for the physically disabled who decides at age 38 to lose his virginity. O’Brien spends his life in an iron lung, paralyzed […] More
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Sundance 2012: First look at ‘The Surrogate’
The Surrogate / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Ben Lewin) — Mark O’Brien, a 36-year-old poet and journalist with an iron lung, decides he no longer wishes to be a virgin. With the help of his therapist and the guidance of his priest, he contacts a professional sex surrogate to take him on a journey to […] More