‘How To Have Sex’ Review: Molly Manning Walker Makes Exceptional Directing Debut With Powerful Teen Drama – Cannes Film Festival

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God, what a terrible thing it is to be a teenage girl. A body once free to roam and run and be transformed by the unforgivable rush of hormones, cunning little tricksters pumped through blood in a mad rush to reach the anti-climatic cusp of adulthood.

Guy Lodge Film Critic Anyone seeking to describe “How to Have Sex” for potential American viewers is liable to land on the term “spring break” in the process: It is, after all, a story about hard-partying teenagers heading to a sunny coastal resort for several nights of boozy, horny, wholly unsupervised antics. Yet the teens here are British, the destination one of those grisly Mediterranean club hubs geared entirely toward British tourists, and the partying so distinctly British in its aims and etiquette that the translation hardly applies. The vacation presented here is as much like a quintessential spring break as Molly Manning Walker’s fresh, head-turning debut debut feature is like Harmony Korine’s “Spring Breakers” — superficially similar in its pile-driving social chaos and eye-searing fluorescent visuals, but with a very different, damaged heart beating underneath it all.

Making it official! Dua Lipa and boyfriend Romain Gavras made their red carpet debut at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival.  

Dua Lipa is all cozied up next to her new beau, Romain Gavras!

Dua Lipa and Romain Gavras are red carpet official! The duo stepped out on Friday to attend the premiere of  () at the 76th annual Cannes Film Festival.The pair dressed to impress for the occasion, with Lipa stunning in a one-shoulder dress that featured cutouts in the chest and back, as well as a thigh-high slit, while Gavras looked dapper in a classic black suit.The 27-year-old singer and the 41-year-old music video director appeared happy as could be on the carpet, holding hands, laughing and looking lovingly at each other.The pair was first linked in February, when they  were spotted leaving a London party together. Shortly thereafter, they were photographed holding hands in Paris.Lipa has been linked to several potential suitors since her split from Anwar Hadid in late 2021.

Dua Lipa and Romain Gavras are red carpet official! The duo stepped out on Friday to attend the premiere of  () at the 76th annual Cannes Film Festival.The pair dressed to impress for the occasion, with Lipa stunning in a one-shoulder dress that featured cutouts in the chest and back, as well as a thigh-high slit, while Gavras looked dapper in a classic black suit.The 27-year-old singer and the 41-year-old music video director appeared happy as could be on the carpet, holding hands, laughing and looking lovingly at each other.The pair was first linked in February, when they  were spotted leaving a London party together. Shortly thereafter, they were photographed holding hands in Paris.Lipa has been linked to several potential suitors since her split from Anwar Hadid in late 2021.

They say you always remember the first time, but Molly Manning Walker’s Cannes debut, in the shorts section of Directors’ Fortnight, only happened in theory, after the pandemic closed down the festival. “It’s weird but I’ve never seen a film I’ve made in a cinema,” she says. “Both of my other shorts came out in the pandemic, then Good Thanks, You? premiered at Cannes, but only virtually, which was heartbreaking. So, it will be great to be at Cannes and experience it in full force.”

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Alissa Simon Film Critic It’s already been a good year for the English cinematographer turned writer-director Molly Manning Walker. A film that she shot, “Scrapper,” won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, as well as praise for her vibrant lensing. Now, her first feature, the intimate, near-anthropological “How to Have Sex,” premieres as part of Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section. And to top it off, MUBI has already acquired the title for major territories. “How to Have Sex” follows three female teens on a summer holiday in the loud, hectic party town of Malia, Crete. Having just completed their GCSE exams, the English trio are ready to let off steam by drinking, dancing and getting laid. This latter goal ranks as the most sensitive for petite Tara (Mia McKenna-Bruce), who still retains her virginity. The film shows how having sex as a teenager is complicated and the role that peer pressure and consent (or the lack of it) plays.

While Southeast Asian films have premiered at the Cannes Film Festival many times before, and even won the Palme d’Or, there’s an energy around the region this year that we haven’t felt on the Croisette at previous editions. 

EXCLUSIVE: Daisy Jelley, one of the stars of buzzy Cannes Film Festival debut How To Have Sex, Normal People and Red Election star Clinton Liberty, and The Witcher and Willow actress Niamh McCormack are among the rising Irish and British actors aboard for vampire horror Feed, which is being launched for the Cannes market.

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