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Apr. 23rd, 2013 08:47 pmWinter Nomads
French? with English subtitles. Seen at WI film festival. (I had a free ticket.)
I loved this film about shepherds who wander the countryside for 4 months to let the herd graze on leftover grass over the winter. It's a "fly on the wall" documentary with no explanations given. Pascal, a man perhaps in his fifties, travels with Carole, a young woman. They have 3 donkeys, four border collies, and about 800 sheep. They travel in beautiful countryside and through towns. They sleep on tarps and skins and eat food over a fire. It's an old way of life in a modern time. It was gorgeous and interesting.
The Sessions
This was a pretty solid movie about Mark O'Brien, a writer with post-polio syndrome, who hires a sex therapist. This film had a great cast and used a lot of Mark's words. It showed some of the realities of his life, was funny and as far as I could tell, realistic.
You can read his orginal essay in the Sun here.
What I disliked about the movie was its uncritical heteronormativity. That is to say; PIV intercourse was presented as being very important, even necessary!, to sex. Kink was not discussed. Adaptive devices weren't discussed in any real way.
Still I recommend this movie because there aren't that many films about disability and sex. And the cast is quite good.
French? with English subtitles. Seen at WI film festival. (I had a free ticket.)
I loved this film about shepherds who wander the countryside for 4 months to let the herd graze on leftover grass over the winter. It's a "fly on the wall" documentary with no explanations given. Pascal, a man perhaps in his fifties, travels with Carole, a young woman. They have 3 donkeys, four border collies, and about 800 sheep. They travel in beautiful countryside and through towns. They sleep on tarps and skins and eat food over a fire. It's an old way of life in a modern time. It was gorgeous and interesting.
The Sessions
This was a pretty solid movie about Mark O'Brien, a writer with post-polio syndrome, who hires a sex therapist. This film had a great cast and used a lot of Mark's words. It showed some of the realities of his life, was funny and as far as I could tell, realistic.
You can read his orginal essay in the Sun here.
What I disliked about the movie was its uncritical heteronormativity. That is to say; PIV intercourse was presented as being very important, even necessary!, to sex. Kink was not discussed. Adaptive devices weren't discussed in any real way.
Still I recommend this movie because there aren't that many films about disability and sex. And the cast is quite good.
