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 …
. 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.
In 2020, Manning looked at the trauma caused by sexual assault in her short “Good Thanks, You?,” which screened at Cannes Critics Week. She thinks of “How to Have Sex” as a continuation of that film’s work. “As a teenager I experienced sexual assault,” she says. “For me it’s something that isn’t spoken enough, which in turn makes the experience worse. If when you bring up assault, the air is sucked out of a room; how are you meant to move on? I felt like I hadn’t finished expressing this.
Keen to keep the film’s youthful energy alive, Walker incorporated some of the cast’s pre-shoot improvisation into the script, adding some funny and naturalistic lines. “We had a week of rehearsals in London where we built the characters’ backgrounds,” she says. “I got them to interview each other on a Handycam in character about their lives. We played funny games like what would your characters chat up line be, etc.
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