Sentences with phrase «sexual awakening»

The shy youngster also has the misfortune of having to hide the fact that he's gay, since he's experiencing pangs of sexual awakening in the midst of an African - American, ghetto culture which is homophobic to the point of violence.

The adolescent sexual awakening at the heart of first - time director Marielle Heller's adaptation of Phoebe Gloeckner's graphic novel isn't always pretty or pleasant; in fact, it often verges on the positively dangerous.

But Bess is determined to marry, and the post-wedding scenes detail her giddy sexual awakening in explicit yet gentle detail.

Maybe I'm reading into your film but coming from a background in literature, with a naïve, innocent protagonist named Justine, and a story that is about sexual awakening as well it's easy to think of the world of the Marquis de Sade [«Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue», 1791].

Funny, acerbic and moving story of a young man's sexual awakening as family life crumbles around him.

Elle Fanning continues her electric career playing precocious teens on the cusp of sexual awakening with her role as the eccentric love interest in How to Talk to Girls at Parties — but with a twist.

As she works through her own sexual awakening with Katie, Cyd unwinds some of the ways Miranda's life has gotten too safe.

This quirky sexual awakening story is about a high school senior named Alex Truelove, played by newcomer Daniel Doheny (from Adventures in Public School), who has a «wonderful girlfriend» named Claire.

by Walter Chaw A predictably disturbing take on Hans Christian Andersen's cautionary tale of the importance of conformity and the dangers of female sexual awakening, the diminutive heroine of Don Bluth and Gary Goldman's Thumbelina arrives in the slow blossoming of a rose.

A series of visceral vignettes conjure memories of companionship and sexual awakening during a summer shared together on their Kentucky farm.

Just judging on the fact that the story has been interpreted to be an allegory for sexual awakening, Little Red Riding Hood was just asking to be dumbed down and reimaged into a romance for teeny - boppers.

What follows is an extraordinary setup for the middle action of À nos amours, a shrapnel - soft portrait of a teenager (Sandrine Bonnaire, in her film debut) whose sexual awakening coincides with her father leaving the home.

Internally, though, Elio is more attuned to his age — sensitive and a bit confused by feelings that turn into an unexpectedly different sexual awakening when Oliver (Armie Hammer), a summer intern for his father, arrives to spend time at the house.

Surprising in that it essentially came out of nowhere from a first time director (Marielle Heller) and stars a first time actress (Bel Powley), The Diary of a Teenage Girl is a bit of an unassuming film, a throwback 70's pastiche of a coming of age story about a 15 year old girl's sexual awakening via an affair with her single mother's boyfriend, but it is made with a fiery spirit.

Much like their previous collaboration, 1988's «Dangerous Liaisons» (and other Hampton works such as «Atonement» and «Total Eclipse»), this is a story of sexual awakening gone awry — which is not to say that the novel lacks for romance.

This is not to discount the experience of any person who did indeed have a sudden personal and sexual awakening over the course of just a few days, yet to structure a narrative about a traditionally (in Hollywood, anyway) scary minority in such a manner threatens to dehumanize the trans community by alienating audiences sadly accustomed to the abrupt nature of this cinematic trope.

From there, Marlo starts to get her groove back; her and Tully venture into hipster Bushwick to party and wreak havoc, a renewed sexual awakening happens in Marlo that takes Drew by surprise.

Young Frank discovers sex, but sexual awakening appears simply as an awakening to sex, not to some salvific knowledge.

It's been such an amazing sexual awakening.

Disregard the incoherent ending, which violates the source material (Joyce Carol Oates story): in her debut, Chopra has made a disturbing tale of sexual awakening set against the 1980s new context of shopping malls; Laura Dern is extraordinary as the lead

While there are rewards to sticking with this tempest - in - teapot saga of sexual awakening across three family generations of Mexican - American women, its pacing is leisurely to the brink of stasis.

It is definitely a guilty pleasure and, as far as sexual awakening movies go, this is far better than 50 Shades, as there are large portions of Magic Mike XXL that promote female worship.

Accusations of this kind resurfaced around Luca Guadagnino's recent Call Me by Your Name, by no means a blockbuster but a Best Picture nominee nonetheless, about a privileged American teen's summertime sexual awakening while vacationing with his parents in the dreamiest dream of Italy this side of, well, every other Guadagnino movie.

Unassuming, but fiercely present with her adept scene partners Chiwetel Ejiofor and Chris Pine, she sells Ann's naive sexual awakening without getting lost in the film's more overt themes.

The teens» lives include the expected, like sexual awakening, competitiveness in the athletic arena (handball), petty jealousy, passive / aggressive body shaming, religion, and rival cliques.

It imagines a complicated, self - destructive sexual awakening decidedly removed from the confines of coming - of - age queer cinema.

An important subplot about a murder takes a back seat to coming - of - age sexual awakenings, aggressively cloaked homosexuality, and routine racial prejudice, all under the guise of Daniels» busy camera.

Meanwhile, Tami is at the other extreme, recounting how prepubescent sexual awakenings had her running around the house naked as a child.

Sitting on the sidelines: Paul Newman's 1968 film about a small - town schoolteacher's sexual awakening dared to make its lesbian character sympathetic

Araki has never made a boring movie, even if his brand of too - fast - too - soon sexual awakening has become something of a crutch.

Buoyed by one of the most incredible performances of the year, the story of Adele's coming of age and sexual awakening unfurls over three hours of unflinching close - ups and breathtaking cinematography.

The success of Shelton» 2009 film Humpday, a comedy of sexual awakening starring Mark Duplass and Joshua Leonard, proved her style could cross over to general audiences, and after directing episodes of Mad Men and New Girl, Shelton's confidence in her abilities rose along with her status in the industry.

Renoir's removal of any hefty political inquiry feels justified given his interest in the women's foregrounded sexual awakening and the idea of Harriet running from childhood into love.

My cinematic sexual awakening: «Some Like It Hot» (1959)-- I distinctly remember being introduced to this Billy Wilder classic at the impressionable age of 10 or so when it made its premiere on network TV.

Lisa Brühlmann's Kafkaesque sexual awakening exists somewhere between Raw, Girlhood and The Fly — a Cronenbergian exploration of feminine maturation that deals in earnest themes of friendship and acceptance, tackling the challenges of life's transitions through a unique, sexually - charged, and often dangerous lens.

Cat People (1982) A charmingly schlocky erotic thriller very loosely based on Jacques Tourneur and Val Lewton's 1942 horror film by the same name, Cat People follows the explosive sexual awakening of Irena Gallier (Nastassja Kinski) who, upon arriving in New Orleans, slowly learns that her desires transform her into a black leopard, placing her and her new zoologist lover (John Heard) in jeopardy.

The Madonna / Whore of sexual awakening parrot each other's lines of maternal concern / wifely neutering («Trevor, if you got any thinner, you'd disappear»), while a demonic father figure mutually manifests itself in Ironside's barbed goodwill and the suffocating familiarity of mysterious nobody Ivan (John Sharian).

It doesn't merely acknowledge the expressionist possibilities in a genre beloved horror fans but unknown to most people, it condenses it into a concentrated extract: a 90 - minute hit of the essence of giallo as a surreal subjective journey, part sexual awakening, part repressed fear, part rarified death dream.

Seven years on from release, Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank still stands out as one of the most thoughtful portrayals of sexual awakening put to screen.

This sumptuously photographed story of a wealthy wife's (Tilda Swinton) sexual awakening opens with striking shots of the city of Milan, its dim, hushed streets and ornate buildings blanketed with snow.

Nevertheless, the girls» sexual awakening becomes the overriding theme in the second half of the picture with most of it focused on Bianca, one of the eldest girls at the school.

Searching for community, Michelle explores an uncensored world online and experiences a provocative sexual awakening.

This speaks, of course, of larger industry problems, of issues of funding and distribution, of what stories get made and marketed to larger audiences, of which films get studio backing, which stars get cast, etc. but it nevertheless seemed rather telling that stories of young black men and cross-cultural relationships, and foreign films about burgeoning and belated sexual awakenings end up ghettoized this way.

One of the things she has to do is to face sexual awakening, which in a fairy tale is often presented as something monstrous and frightening (Beauty and the Beast, anyone?)

Images of the sudden onset of preoccupation with the other, shyness and self - consciousness, awkwardness in interactions, and sexual awakening suffuse popular treatments of the topic.

Todd Haynes made one of my all - time favorite films, Velvet Goldmine, which is about a young man's sexual awakening at the hands of a more experienced man during the vibrant and drug - fueled 1970s glam - rock era.

Mostly about sexual awakening, it goes to some dark places along the way and is lavishly shot.

In this refreshingly rowdy, distinctly feminist film from debut writer - director Maggie Carey an inexperienced, tirelessly sensible teenage girl prepares herself for college life by taking charge of her own sexual awakening.