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The Sessions (2012)
  
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Director:
Ben Lewin |
COUNTRY
USA |
GENRE
Drama |
NORWEGIAN TITLE
The
Sessions |
RUNNING
TIME
95 minutes |
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Producer:
Judi Levine
Stephen Nemeth |
Screenwriter
(based on the article "On Seeing a Sex Surrogate" by Mark
O'Brien):
Ben Lewin |
Review
Embodying, so to speak, the role
of real-life paralysed polio victim Mark O'Brien, John Hawkes gives
one of his finest performances to date, and invites us into his
character's most intimate emotions, soul-searching thoughts and
bitingly sarcastic outlook on life. It's a warm, life-affirming
tribute to the human body and its potential for pleasure - sexual
and otherwise sensory. And through O'Brien, the body is viewed as
something completely independent from our minds; something we are
blessed or cursed with, depending on how one chooses to view it. As
we follow this remarkable man in his quest to fulfill his highly
ordinary needs, and through his many intelligent observations, we're
reminded that a) sex can heal, and b) sex can sell, because apart
from Helen Hunt's nudity and the film's blatant theme, The
Sessions is a bit too congenial and analytical to make O'Brien's
journey seem as relevant and valid to us as it arguably was for him.
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