Greta Gerwig and Joe Swanberg’s Nights and Weekends opens with a clumsy sex scene that sheds the clichés of the many that have come before it in favor of capturing every last detail of the process.
The camera seems at first uncomfortably voyeuristic before you realize, how many scenes of this kind are this compromising? How many times in a sex scene have you watched two people fumbling out of their winter clothes, layer by layer, taking off their socks one at a time, and trying to figure out a position that works? Despite the graphic nudity and long takes, it’s not sexy, but it’s honest.
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