Teenage kicks get a timely #MeToo treatment in writer/director Molly Manning Walker’s punchy first feature. Winner of the Un Certain Regard prize at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, How to Have Sex is a vividly shot, sharp-eyed take on the drunken post-GCSE Mediterranean getaway that is traditionally a frenzied Inbetweeners-style rite of passage for British teens.
Hungry for parties, passion and fishbowl cocktails, BFFs Em (Enva Lewis), Skye (Lara Peake, TV’s Mood) and Tara (Mia McKenna-Bruce, Vampire Academy) throw themselves recklessly into Malia’s frenetic tourist nightlife. Walker’s fearless camera dives after them into bacchanalian pool parties, shrieking karaoke sessions and neon-strobed bars thumping with EDM.
