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<blockquote data-quote="Angela Channing" data-source="post: 329367" data-attributes="member: 33">Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022)<img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FVO5ms4WIAIa305.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 514px" />Emma Thompson has been relentlessly promoting this film recently so I thought I&#039;d give it a watch to see if it is as interesting as she claimed it is. It&#039;s not my favourite film of hers (that would be Saving Mr Banks) but it is a good film but a bit too theatrical I think it probably would work better as a two-hander stage production.Emma plays a retired school teacher called Nancy who is widowed and in all the time she was married never achieved an orgasm and her sex life was generally unsatisfying. So she hires a male escort to help her fulfil her sexual desires and he is the titular Leo Grande. Except for a short scene at the start of the film and another one near the end, the rest of the film (around 98% of it) takes place in the hotel room that Nancy booked for the location to spend time Leo. Around 99% of the dialogue is spoken by Nancy and Leo so this film has a strong feel of being a stage play even though it was written directly for the big screen. The writing is good though and the dialog is clever and witty and I laughed out loud on a few occasions.Most of the film is about Nancy&#039;s reluctance to be intimate with Leo and though a series of conversations we find out more about the backgrounds and motivations of both characters. In many ways, Leo is too perfect: he is incredibly handsome, has a beautifully toned body and is charming, sympathetic, understanding, supportive and always seems to say the right thing at the appropriate time. He&#039;s like a middle-aged woman&#039;s fantasy of what an ideal sex worker would be like rather than being a totally believable character and that&#039;s not meant to be a criticism of Daryl MacCormack who is excellent in the role of Leo.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Angela Channing, post: 329367, member: 33"] [B]Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022)[/B] [IMG width="514px"]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FVO5ms4WIAIa305.jpg[/IMG] Emma Thompson has been relentlessly promoting this film recently so I thought I'd give it a watch to see if it is as interesting as she claimed it is. It's not my favourite film of hers (that would be [I]Saving Mr Banks[/I]) but it is a good film but a bit too theatrical I think it probably would work better as a two-hander stage production. Emma plays a retired school teacher called Nancy who is widowed and in all the time she was married never achieved an orgasm and her sex life was generally unsatisfying. So she hires a male escort to help her fulfil her sexual desires and he is the titular Leo Grande. Except for a short scene at the start of the film and another one near the end, the rest of the film (around 98% of it) takes place in the hotel room that Nancy booked for the location to spend time Leo. Around 99% of the dialogue is spoken by Nancy and Leo so this film has a strong feel of being a stage play even though it was written directly for the big screen. The writing is good though and the dialog is clever and witty and I laughed out loud on a few occasions. Most of the film is about Nancy's reluctance to be intimate with Leo and though a series of conversations we find out more about the backgrounds and motivations of both characters. In many ways, Leo is too perfect: he is incredibly handsome, has a beautifully toned body and is charming, sympathetic, understanding, supportive and always seems to say the right thing at the appropriate time. He's like a middle-aged woman's fantasy of what an ideal sex worker would be like rather than being a totally believable character and that's not meant to be a criticism of Daryl MacCormack who is excellent in the role of Leo. [/QUOTE]

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