He talked about how the impersonal machinery of modernity had destroyed the values and sensitivities, the tenderness and powerful connection that came from living close to the earth.
This profoundly sex-positive film is the unusual movie that equates sex with intimacy, tenderness and emotional connection instead of performance, competition and conquest.
The more I think about it, the more the play becomes an attempt to fit moments of tenderness and genuine connection into a world that doesn't quite support it.
The movie "is a pleasant shock: a touching, profoundly sex-positive film that equates sex with intimacy, tenderness and emotional connection instead of performance, competition and conquest," Stephen Holden wrote in The Times in October.
Arriving in a culture steeped in titillation, prurience and pornographic imagery, "The Sessions" is a pleasant shock: a touching, profoundly sex-positive film that equates sex with intimacy, tenderness and emotional connection instead of performance, competition and conquest.
Nichols wanted to show the strength of the Lovings' partnership, their tenderness and deep connection.
But whatever sex is (clearly very different things to different people), I'm convinced if we follow the thread back to the inciting spark, to that soulful place before compulsion, fetish, pathology and addiction, sex is inherently about connection, tenderness, pleasure and the desire to touch, feel and be close to another person.
Leah Hager Cohen is one of our foremost chroniclers of the mundane complexities, nuanced tragedies and unexpected tendernesses of human connection.
I suggest that that emotional connection – the tenderness of people hand-crafting clothes for other people – mirrors that emotional reaction.
One is a future without women, where rape is so prevalent that it kills love and tenderness and intimacy and connection.
