Good Luck To You Leo Grande

[Estherpologist]

Has anyone seen "Good Luck To You Leo Grande"?
I'm sure it's not a salacious as the trailers want you to think. I guess I'm just wondering if it's worth seeing and if anyone thinks it's even remotely representative of real life?

I loved it.

Yes, it's about sex – a retired widow hiring a younger escort, after an unfulfilling married life. But it's not salacious or visually explicit (it's a 15). And the real focus of the film is not on sex, but on themes of shame, pleasure, identity, judgementalism, honesty, self-acceptance and the masks people wear.

It's about an encounter between two people who have inhabited very different worlds, and the conversations and emotions that result when they find themselves in a hotel room together. There were one or two points I wasn't entirely convinced by, but overall I found it touching and funny. And Emma Thompson is brilliant.

Well worth seeing.

That's kinda what I was hoping for.

Sadly, the film isn't actually being shown in many cinemas. I searched last week.

I agree with this. It made me laugh, and cry. I saw it at a Picturehouse cinema, if you have one of those near you?

A positive from me too , the look on Emma Thompson's Face when she came was a delight .

I saw it this week and I was a bit disappointed. I wouldn't pay to see it at a cinema, I don't think. It felt a bit slow for me. If the 2 lead characters weren't who they were, I think the film would have struggled to make it to the cinema.