Mommy
2023 · 10m · USA
Directed by Sophia Smith
Tones: darkly comic, humorous, sensual
A first hookup gets derailed when a couple tries to experiment with a mommy kink and the dirty talk runs off the rails. Awkward, intimate, and unsparing.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Most sex comedies cut away the second things get awkward — which is the second they get interesting. Smith just keeps the camera rolling, and that's the whole movie.
Sex-comedy that refuses the bail-out — Shiva-Baby compressed to one bedroom with a Fleabag confessional reframed as foreplay. The refusal-to-rescue is the formal gesture, and it works.
Sex comedy that refuses the bail-out — the cringe is allowed to play out in real time as the woman guides the man toward mutually tolerable dirty talk. That's the unsparing register I want.