The Sessions
Dir. Ben Lewin
Country: USA
Aus Rating: N/A
Running Time: 95mins
I suspect it will be easy for cynical audiences to look upon Ben Lewin’s
The Sessions as merely a hurdle to get over this upcoming awards season. Yes, it’s about a man with a disability and, yes, it co-stars Helen Hunt, but the mere fact that it got made at all makes it an important film whether you consider it good or not. Given Hollywood’s fussy attitude towards sex (particularly the sex that makes us feel good), it’s strange to see so much talk about
The Sessions (nee
Six Sessions, nee
The Surrogate) in regards to the Academy Awards. That the film is about sex
and disabilities
and religion, and examines it with maturity and gentle pathos, just makes Lewin’s film that much more of an anomaly worth exploring.
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