Filmhouse/New Kalamata Cinema Club-HOW TO HAVE SEX

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 21st
HOW TO HAVE SEX
Drama | K-16 | 2023 | UK | 91'
directed by: Molly Manning Walker
starring: Anna Antoniades, Mia McKenna-Bruce, Lara Peake
21:00 | Thod. Aggelopoulos Amphitheatre, Kalamata Labour Centre

General admission is 5 euros. Admission is 3 euros for the unemployed, those with multiple children and students, and free admission for those under 18.

Three friends from England who have just finished their entrance exams arrive in Malia, Crete, bound for a hot Greek summer full of drinks, fun, parties and sex. However, the idyllic start to their journey is soon overshadowed by the traumatic consequences of their association with the two boys they meet at the hotel.

The film, thanks to the directorial insight of newcomer Molly Manning Walker, is a sober social study of consent and, at the same time, a cinematic textbook on the "accepted facts" of the romantic approach. How the illusion of independence and freedom of teenagers just before or just after 18 not only determines but also enforces their actions and behaviours, simply because that's what everyone does, because it's "cool", regardless of the "I really want personal boundaries" too.

With her realistic look reminiscent of a documentary, the director delves into the ever-present topic of consensual sex and, at the same time, manages to fill her film with explosive energy. She first listens to her heroes and then analyses the problematic aspects of their actions, not forgetting their origins and age. Even the title of the film is not accidental, it exists to state not how sex is done, but how it should be. It is a spontaneous and enthusiastic film, with equal parts of patience and honesty.

The film was awarded in the One Look at the Cannes Film Festival and this year's Premiere Nights as Best Film.