Sex @ Film Forum, 5:45 7/17
It’s been about a month since my last newsletter! Apologies for the delay! My primarily remote work team assembled in New York for a sprint and then I spent a bit traveling so I haven’t had an opportunity till now to see movies! I miss it and I am excited to start again :)
This week I’m seeing Sex at Film Forum. I’m going to the 5:45 showing on Thursday. If you’d like to join me, let me know and I can supply a discounted ticket using my membership! The film is from Norway, so is in Norwegian with English subtitles.
Haugerud’s Sex is one of three films in his Love-Sex-Dreams trilogy which intimately explores gender and sexual expression within the context of modern-day relationships. Sex specifically explores how men can explore gender expansiveness within heterosexual monogamy, while also enacting the intricacy of an authentic and generous love.
According to David Ehrlich at IndieWire, it’s “sweet and sly. This isn’t a movie that’s for or against monogamy, so much as it’s a touching - and, during its final minutes, even vaguely transcendental - study of how we’re all too infinite to stay bottled up within ourselves.”
This is a trilogy I’ve wanted to see for a long time. I’m glad to finally be taking the time to see one of the films in it!
The most recent movie on this newsletter was The Life of Chuck. I really got a lot out of it, though I think it’s likely not everyone would. The film deals with the mental world we build as our lives come to contain more and more, and what happens to that mental world when we die. The end result is a deeply moving meditation on Whitman’s idea that we contain multitudes and an affirmation of life through the weight of our departure. Somehow through all this it still feels deeply celebratory. Wonderful.