2022 · comedy · drama · romance
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
Directed by Sophie Hyde1h 37m2022
Nancy Stokes, a retired schoolteacher, is pretty sure she has never had good sex. Now that her husband has died, she is determined to take a tour of sexual vistas that until now she has only imagined. She even has a plan; it involves an anonymous hotel room, and a sex worker who calls himself Leo Grande.
Our read: Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022) reads as a warm, measured, grounded comedy · drama · romance entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, measured, measured comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
- warm
- measured
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