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How to Have Sex
2023
· Movie
· 91 min
C
MEANRANK
66/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2947
- IMDb #3799
- Google retired #3802
- Metacritic #1811
- Letterboxd #1893
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #178
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- Metacritic Critics #741
- Metacritic Audience #3997
- Douban #2638
- Kinopoisk #5150
- AlloCiné #2944
Every rating
54–97
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Google on 54, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 97. Critics average 88, everyone else 61.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Three teenage girls travel to a Mediterranean resort town for a holiday celebrating the end of their school exams. They expect a sun-drenched trip of freedom, partying, and sexual exploration. As the nights blur into one another, one of the girls finds the reality of the experience to be far more complex and unsettling than she anticipated, challenging her ideas about peer pressure, consent, and the transition into adulthood.
Details
- Director
- Molly Manning Walker
- Writer
- Molly Manning Walker
- Studio
- Film4 Productions, mk2 Films, Metrol Technology, uMedia
- Released
- 2 November 2023
- Country
- United Kingdom, Greece, France, Belgium
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 91 min
- Rated
- NR
- Box office
- $1.2M
- Awards
- 9 wins, 21 nominations
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Cast
Full cast (22) →
Awards & nominations
See all 30 →1 major award won · 9 wins from 30 nominations across 10 ceremonies
| Cannes Film Festival 2023 | Un Certain Regard | Molly Manning Walker | Winner |
| Cannes Film Festival 2023 | Queer Palm | Molly Manning Walker | Nominee |
| Cannes Film Festival 2023 | Caméra d'Or | Molly Manning Walker | Nominee |
| British Academy Film Awards 2024 | Best Casting | Isabella Odoffin | Nominee |
| British Academy Film Awards 2024 | Outstanding British Film | Molly Manning Walker, Emily Leo, Ivana MacKinnon and Konstantinos Kontovrakis | Nominee |
| British Academy Film Awards 2024 | Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer | Molly Manning Walker | Nominee |
| London Film Critics' Circle 2024 | Breakthrough Performer of the Year | Mia McKenna-Bruce | Winner |
| Athens International Film Festival 2023 | Best Picture | How to Have Sex | Winner |
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Cannes Film Festival
3 nominations, 1 won
| Un Certain Regard | Molly Manning Walker | Winner |
| Caméra d'Or | Molly Manning Walker | Nominee |
| Queer Palm | Molly Manning Walker | Nominee |
British Independent Film Awards
13 nominations, 3 won
| Best Casting | Isabella Odoffin | Winner |
| Best Lead Performance | Mia McKenna-Bruce | Winner |
| Best Supporting Performance | Shaun Thomas | Winner |
| Best British Independent Film | Molly Manning Walker, Ivana MacKinnon, Emily Leo, and Konstantinos Kontovrakis | Nominee |
| Best Costume Design | George Buxton | Nominee |
| Best Debut Screenwriter | Molly Manning Walker | Nominee |
| Best Director | Molly Manning Walker | Nominee |
| Best Make-Up & Hair Design | Natasha Lawes | Nominee |
| Best Screenplay | Molly Manning Walker | Nominee |
| Best Sound | Steve Fanagan | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Performance | Samuel Bottomley | Nominee |
| Breakthrough Performance | Mia McKenna-Bruce | Nominee |
| Douglas Hickox Award (Best Debut Director) | Molly Manning Walker | Nominee |
Valladolid International Film Festival
3 nominations, 2 won
| Best New Director | Molly Manning Walker | Winner |
| Young Jury Prize Official Section | How to Have Sex | Winner |
| Golden Spike | How to Have Sex | Nominee |
European Film Awards
3 nominations, 1 won
| European Discovery | Molly Manning Walker | Winner |
| Best Actress | Mia McKenna-Bruce | Nominee |
| University Film Award | How to Have Sex | Nominee |
Athens International Film Festival
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Picture | How to Have Sex | Winner |
London Film Critics' Circle
1 nomination, 1 won
| Breakthrough Performer of the Year | Mia McKenna-Bruce | Winner |
British Academy Film Awards
3 nominations
| Best Casting | Isabella Odoffin | Nominee |
| Outstanding British Film | Molly Manning Walker, Emily Leo, Ivana MacKinnon and Konstantinos Kontovrakis | Nominee |
| Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer | Molly Manning Walker | Nominee |
Jerusalem Film Festival
1 nomination
| The Nechama Rivilin Award for Best International Film | How to Have Sex | Nominee |
Melbourne International Film Festival
1 nomination
| Bright Horizons Award | How to Have Sex | Nominee |
Zurich Film Festival
1 nomination
| Best International Feature Film | How to Have Sex | Nominee |