Gas Money
2021 · 11m
Directed by Allison Bunce
Genres: comedy, documentary, experimental
Tones: darkly comic, humorous, provocative
A filmmaker making a documentary about the female orgasm tries to get her conservative parents to confront their repressive attitudes toward her own sexual explorations — a provocatively funny dissection of shame.
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She's making a documentary about orgasms and she's showing it to her parents. The comedy is tense and the arguments are airtight. A+ use of discomfort.
A documentary-about-the-female-orgasm used as the lever to confront repressive parents — the meta-conceit is funny and the discomfort is real, though it lives or dies on Bunce keeping the family confrontation from becoming a stunt.
A documentary about female orgasm used as the lever to confront conservative parents — the gluten-free-and-vegan sound woman detail tells me this has eye for specifics. Strong premise, real risk of slipping into provocation-for-provocation.