How to Have Sex

It’s naturalistic, thoughtful, and deeply, deeply uncomfortable because there are familiar behaviours that almost anyone will remember from their own adolescence — and wish they could forget.

This film marks Molly Manning Walker as a director to watch.

Walker realizes this is risky material but she avoids sensationalism in charting Tara’s treacherous journey, one that requires lead McKenna-Bryce to crawl into tough emotional spaces.

If you have an idealized memory of your teenage years, see this movie to remember what it was actually like.

Registers the tensions, the betrayals and the pain of feeling violated on a granular level.

McKenna-Bruce can work wonders in terms of assured technique and complicated emotions and she’s magically right as Tara.

The film is worth seeing for its insight into the party scene and for an interesting angle on giving consent.

Walker reminds that, though we all reach adulthood at the same time in terms of pure numbers, our internal paces and definitions vary infinitely.

This film and its cast compellingly convey the importance of telling the truth and of looking at events through the proper lens, one that assigns blame to those who do wrong and not those without the ability to stop them.

Director Walker does something really special within How to Have Sex. She demonstrates the importance of true friendship and allyship which all simply boils down to ‘women looking out for women.’