{"id":69210,"date":"2023-11-02T20:06:53","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T20:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/likecelebwn.com\/?p=69210"},"modified":"2023-11-02T20:06:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T20:06:53","slug":"how-to-have-sex-wins-rave-reviews-but-it-was-inspired-by-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/likecelebwn.com\/lifestyle\/how-to-have-sex-wins-rave-reviews-but-it-was-inspired-by-tragedy\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Have Sex wins rave reviews &#8211; but it was inspired by tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The drug-filled British film with an unknown cast becoming this year&#8217;s most buzzed-about movie: How to Have Sex &#8211; dubbed &#8216;Skins meets Trainspotting&#8217; wins rave reviews from critics &#8211; but it was inspired the director&#8217;s own tragic ordeal<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Molly Manning Walker\u00a0\u00a0hopes to get the film showed in sex education in the UK\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0Netflix&#8217;s The Fall of the House of Usher &#8211; dubbed the &#8216;horror version of Succession&#8217; &#8211; leaves viewers disturbed with animal slaughter, suicide and incest scene<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A new film telling the tale of three British girls coming-of-age trip to Malia dubbed &#8216;Trainspotting meets Skins&#8217; is set to become a huge\u00a0 hit.<\/p>\n<p>Hitting cinemas tomorrow, the 15-rated feature film, made by Film 4,\u00a0 follows three British teenage girls who head on a trip to the resort on Crete while waiting for their GCSE results.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s won over critics for handling the pain and trauma that too often accompanies girlhood.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a relatively unknown cast and a directorial debut for Molly Manning Walker, it picked up the Un Certain Regard section of this year&#8217;s\u00a0Cannes Film Festival\u00a0with an eight-minute standing ovation.<\/p>\n<p>A trip filled with partying, close friends, and the seaside should be one of their best yet &#8211; but things take a dark turn when uncomfortable truths, including sexual consent, are brought to the surface.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/02\/18\/77333305-12703301-image-m-29_1698948514054.jpg\" height=\"641\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Set to hit cinemas tomorrow, the 15-rated feature film follows three British teenage girls on a rite-of-passage holiday to Malia after they complete their GCSEs. Tara (played by Mia McKenna- Bruce, left) meets Paddy (played by Samuel Bottomley, right) on the trip<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/02\/18\/77333307-12703301-image-a-23_1698948188641.jpg\" height=\"422\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The holiday turns sour for Tara (pictured) when she faces a series of uncomfortable truths, including sexual assault\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Beneath the surface of Manning&#8217;s glitzy accolades lies a more disturbing reality, given that the film is loosely autobiographical.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>How to Have Sex is based upon a girl&#8217;s trip to Malia, where three best friends. Tara (Mia McKenna-Bruce), Skye (Lara Peake) and Em (Enva Lewis) all plan to let loose at the holiday resort.<\/p>\n<p>Infamous for wild lads&#8217; holidays, the island delivers its promise. Picture neon parties, plenty of alcohol and drinking games. The girls embark on flirtatious hookups, and Tara hopes that she will lose her virginity.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, the trip fulfils expectations, with the girls stumbling home in the early hours, recalling hilarious events while securing the greasiest food they can get their hands on.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, the girls meet a group of boys, with Paddy (played by Samuel Bottomley) and Badger (Shaun Thomas) initially becoming close pals.<\/p>\n<p>Sex and alcohol consume the holiday, with the kids&#8217; main priority being to get as messy as possible.<\/p>\n<p>But the holiday that was once filled with carefree laughter and close friends drunkenly declaring their love for one another turns sour when Tara suffers a disconcerting sexual experience with Paddy.<\/p>\n<p>Calling it a sexual assault isn&#8217;t clear cut- because Tara flirts with Paddy. While some viewers will consider it assault, others are likely to be confounded. But that&#8217;s what Manning hoped to create.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/02\/18\/77333285-12703301-image-m-22_1698948165785.jpg\" height=\"1117\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>How to Have Sex marks Molly Manning Walker\u00a0 (pictured) directorial debut, but she has hit the ground running with rave reviews from critics\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In conversation with The Times, Manning said: &#8216;We did workshops around the UK where we interviewed young people about their concept of consent and gave them scenes from the film to read.<\/p>\n<p><span>&#8216;So many girls and boys were like, &#8220;She said yes, so that&#8217;s consent.&#8221; Or, &#8220;Well, she didn&#8217;t get out of the bed, so it&#8217;s not an assault.&#8221; That made me really sad. We think there&#8217;s all this progression about young people and sex, but nothing has changed. In fact, it might be getting worse.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In addition to grappling with themes of sexual assault, the film also depicts friendships and the toxicity they can involve, with sexual encounters taking precedence over the welfare of the group.<\/p>\n<p>But it was a different experience that has become all too common in the UK that helped shape Manning&#8217;s input on the film.<\/p>\n<p>At the age of 16, Manning suffered sexual assault after her drink was spiked on a night out.<\/p>\n<p>When she took the case to the police, they told her not to trouble herself with prosecuting, even though the assailant already had a criminal record.<\/p>\n<p>In conversation with The Times, Manning said that the sexual predator eventually faced prison for a bank robbery, which made her question why he could be charged for that and not for hurting someone.<\/p>\n<p>Feeling safe and assured was an essential component in the filming process, and Manning made sure that, during the filming of sex scenes, everyone was comfortable.<\/p>\n<p>Open and frank discussion between shots helped this, along with an intimacy coordinator on set.<\/p>\n<p>While the film has reached its short-term success of awards and praise from critics, Manning strives to get the film into schools to teach sex education.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We need to start talking about female pleasure, good sex and consent, empathy and understanding. It&#8217;s not about &#8216;men are bad&#8217;. The aim isn&#8217;t to lock boys out or point fingers. I just want to open a conversation about it, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-12703301\/The-drug-filled-British-film-unknown-cast-years-buzzed-movie-Sex-dubbed-Skins-meets-Trainspotting-wins-rave-reviews-critics-inspired-directors-tragic-ordeal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The drug-filled British film with an unknown cast becoming this year&#8217;s most buzzed-about movie: How to Have Sex &#8211; dubbed &#8216;Skins meets Trainspotting&#8217; wins rave reviews from critics &#8211; but it was inspired the director&#8217;s own tragic ordeal Molly Manning Walker\u00a0\u00a0hopes to get the film showed in sex education in the UK\u00a0\u00a0 READ MORE:\u00a0Netflix&#8217;s The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How to Have Sex wins rave reviews - but it was inspired by tragedy - Like celeb WN<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/likecelebwn.com\/lifestyle\/how-to-have-sex-wins-rave-reviews-but-it-was-inspired-by-tragedy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How to Have Sex wins rave reviews - but it was inspired by tragedy - Like celeb WN\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The drug-filled British film with an unknown cast becoming this year&#8217;s most buzzed-about movie: How to Have Sex &#8211; 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