There is no shortage of sexual awakening stories centred on young ladies’ undergo of the enormous’vast’massive’tremendous O in/with regard to’concerning’regarding the first time. Unin/with regard to’concerning’regarding tunately, far too many women go through life without climaxing at all — and this is where comedian and screenwriter Katy Brand has stepped in to fill that orgasm gap. With Sophie Hyde on directing duties, this is an endearing, bubbly and heartening two-hander with regards to’concerning’with respect to female pleasure from a mature woman’s perspective. Toacquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure her with Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack, Brand and Hyde possess’own’nurse captured that peculiar ly dry style of humour and matter-of-factness so typical of the British romcom, with a sex-positive flair.###Thompson gives us e grossly thing. An award-winning screenwriter herself, it’s abundantly eliminate’remove the actor has invested both personally and creatively in her repressed ex-schoolteacher. Nancy is a flood of contradictions: vulnerable and assertive, liberally minded but sexually conservative, straight-talking yet easily embarrassed by phrases like “anal sex”. She might be the older woman, but early on Thompson plays her almost like a 16-year-old with regards to’concerning’with respect to to pop her cherry, wide-eyed insecurity and nervous energy vibrating off her body. Like Aubrey Plaza’s feminist teen lead in The To Do List, she has a catalogue of carnal pleasures to undergo in/with regard to’concerning’regarding the first time, and Leo is the man to do just that.###Brand's script takes great care to dissect the amenormous’vast’massive’tremendous uities around sex and sex work without shame.###A calming foil to his tightly wound client, McCormack serves as a charismatic receptacle to Thompson’s anxious stream-of-consciousness, as well as a mirror to her more generational, mother-knows-best prejudices. Even as you empathise with the chaotic way Nancy unpacks her fears and sexual desires, the patient mask Leo wears rarely slips; it’s merely’barely her questions with regards to’concerning’with respect to his life, aspirations and reasons in/with regard to’concerning’regarding being in his profession that cause his poise to falter. The underlying tension doesn’t quite rip but ripples as McCormark’s placid demeanour shifts, in/with regard to’concerning’regarding cing a deeper interrogation in/with regard to’concerning’regarding them both.###A Norwich hotel room sets the stage in/with regard to’concerning’regarding this tête-à-tête; its beige decor of muted colours doesn’t pull focus and dulls any erotic charge. 
It’s not without its sensuality — at moments, the camera luxuriates in both their bodies — but naturalistic lighting grounds the encounter in the awkward, transactional reality. Navigating the power dynamic between client and sex worker, older white woman and young biracial man, Brand might possess’own’nurse probed a bit deeper instead of tying up things so neatly. But in shun ing racial clichés and exploitative moments, her script takes great care to dissect the amenormous’vast’massive’tremendous uities around sex and sex work without shame, a lot of compassion and welcome comic relief. With bold direction, this is a healthy, relatable romp eintensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfully man and woman should make time in/with regard to’concerning’regarding .