Post by max23 on Jul 18, 2020 4:15:23 GMT -5
An article in the Australian edition of The Guardian discusses a newly released indie comedy film, Saint Frances.
"In an early scene, the lead Bridget (played by the film’s writer Kelly O’Sullivan) wakes up after a night of passion to find blood on hers and her male sexual partner’s face. Bridget initially feels awkward, but the pair laugh it off as they change her bloody bedsheets.
The writer-actor laments the lack of films dealing with this subject, though recalls an episode of Sex and the City in which the character Samantha, fearing she was going through menopause, is relieved for her period to come on during sex, though her male partner is 'horrified' by the discovery. 'If somebody is an asshole about you having a period during sex, they’re gonna be an asshole in general,' she says. 'But there is a discussion that’s emerging into the zeitgeist about period sex and about how different people react to it: the shame that some people are made to feel about it but also the acceptance that other people have.'
'Many women report this being one of the times they’re most interested in having sex outside of ovulation, and orgasms have been shown to help ease period pains,' says Frances Rayner, founder of the Clit Test – a campaign to change the way sex is portrayed on screen. 'I think we’ll quickly start to see this change as women slowly gain power in all aspects of content production.'
'The great thing about [Saint Frances] being an independent film, it’s not filmed by committee,' O’Sullivan says. 'You don’t have to get the OK from 100 people in a way that you do if you’re a studio film or network show. '
'So we had some lovely investors who asked if there had to be so much blood and we were like yes, because, thematically, the core of this film is about acceptance and it’s something that women have been told for the longest time is dirty or shameful,' she adds. 'Most of our pushback was from men but we were unapologetic.'
O’Sullivan hopes that her film will inspire both men and women to become active participants in the normalisation of period sex both on-screen and in real life too."
Full article: www.theguardian.com/film/2020/jun/30/about-bloody-time-is-cinema-finally-going-with-the-flow-of-period-sex
Saint Frances - official trailer (shows the sheet changing scene): www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqKfxEGuxtE
"In an early scene, the lead Bridget (played by the film’s writer Kelly O’Sullivan) wakes up after a night of passion to find blood on hers and her male sexual partner’s face. Bridget initially feels awkward, but the pair laugh it off as they change her bloody bedsheets.
The writer-actor laments the lack of films dealing with this subject, though recalls an episode of Sex and the City in which the character Samantha, fearing she was going through menopause, is relieved for her period to come on during sex, though her male partner is 'horrified' by the discovery. 'If somebody is an asshole about you having a period during sex, they’re gonna be an asshole in general,' she says. 'But there is a discussion that’s emerging into the zeitgeist about period sex and about how different people react to it: the shame that some people are made to feel about it but also the acceptance that other people have.'
'Many women report this being one of the times they’re most interested in having sex outside of ovulation, and orgasms have been shown to help ease period pains,' says Frances Rayner, founder of the Clit Test – a campaign to change the way sex is portrayed on screen. 'I think we’ll quickly start to see this change as women slowly gain power in all aspects of content production.'
'The great thing about [Saint Frances] being an independent film, it’s not filmed by committee,' O’Sullivan says. 'You don’t have to get the OK from 100 people in a way that you do if you’re a studio film or network show. '
'So we had some lovely investors who asked if there had to be so much blood and we were like yes, because, thematically, the core of this film is about acceptance and it’s something that women have been told for the longest time is dirty or shameful,' she adds. 'Most of our pushback was from men but we were unapologetic.'
O’Sullivan hopes that her film will inspire both men and women to become active participants in the normalisation of period sex both on-screen and in real life too."
Full article: www.theguardian.com/film/2020/jun/30/about-bloody-time-is-cinema-finally-going-with-the-flow-of-period-sex
Saint Frances - official trailer (shows the sheet changing scene): www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqKfxEGuxtE
