With intimate, tender performances from Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack, Sophie Hyde’s Good Luck to You, Leo Grande is an intelligent, sharp, and emotional sex comedy that is a pure delight.
I am always nervous when labelling any film ‘a sex comedy’; after all, it’s a sub-genre that has so often failed to explore the complexities of sex and our human need for physical connection. But maybe, with director Sophie Hyde’s Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, the sex comedy has finally come of age.
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande is a movie about Nancy (Emma Thompson), who has been denied sexual adventure and finally, in later life, decides it’s time to experience all the things her husband couldn’t give her. But it’s also the story of a young and devilishly handsome sex worker, Leo (Daryl McCormack) and his need to separate his ‘work’ from his emotions as he feeds the needs of others with no thought as to his own needs in the process. It’s a film about finding yourself through physical intimacy and sexuality, regardless of age; a delightful two-person play that reminds us all that, for many of us, sex is a part of who we are, a foundation stone of our outward confidence and inward esteem.
With intimate, tender performances from Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack, Sophie Hyde’s intelligent, sharp, and emotional sex comedy is a pure delight.
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