The Diary of a Teenage Girl; 2015, R

This is an amazing and wonderful film. It is very sexual but it is not erotic. OK, don’t be creeped out. Here is the storyline. A 15 year old girl is having a sexual relationship with her mother’s boyfriend. However, she is not a victim. This is a coming of age film whose focus is on a young woman’s sexual energy and sexual pain. Bel Powley is brilliant in depicting this precocious and artistic young woman. This is one of the best coming of age films since The Breakfast Club. 4/5/16

Love 2015; UR

This is a sexually explicit film that is available streaming on Netflix. It is a serious film yet has the type of explicit sexuality usually seen only in pornography. The story walks backward. It starts with violence fueled by drugs yet as we go backward we understand a history of tenderness in this same relation. I recommend this film if for no other reason than a document of extreme sexuality, yet easily available on Netflix streaming. It is a document of our current culture that is absent of any form of sexual censorship. I believe this is positive, yet leaves the censorship to us as viewers. 4/5/16