Archive of films Good Luck to You, Leo Grande / Good Luck to You, Leo Grande

United Kingdom
2021, 97 min

Section: Horizons
Year: 2022

Nancy nervously paces back and forth by the hotel-room window until a good-looking young man knocks at the door. A widow and former teacher who has never had an orgasm, Nancy has decided to educate herself when it comes to sex. But first she will have to overcome her own uncertainties. Emma Thompson shines in this conversational film that is something like an updated version of Pretty Woman.


Synopsis

Nancy nervously paces back and forth by the hotel-room window. When a handsome young man knocks at the door, she at first cannot believe that he looks just as good as in his photograph. A widow and former teacher who has never had an orgasm, Nancy has decided to educate herself when it comes to sex. But her greatest challenge will be overcoming her own biases and uncertainties. This conversational film is something like an updated version of Pretty Woman. Within the setting of one hotel room, we follow a sensitively told story of self-acceptance and of the late awakening of sexuality. Emma Thompson shines as a woman who must struggle mainly with herself on her path to regaining her self-confidence.

Ondřej Kopřiva

About the director

Sophie Hyde

Sophie Hyde (1977, Adelaide, Australia). Selected filmography: Ok, Let’s Talk About Me (2005, short doc.), Necessary Games (2009, short), Life in Movement (2011, doc.), 52 Tuesdays (2013), Fucking Adelaide (2017, series), The Hunting (2019, series), Animals (2019), Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2021).

Contacts

Cornerstone Films
c/o We Work, 1 Fore Street, EC2Y 5EJ, London
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 203 457 7257

Forum Film Czech s. r. o.
Arkalycká 951/3, 149 00, Praha 4 - Háje
Czech Republic
E-mail: [email protected]

About the film

Color, DCP

Section: Horizons
   
Director: Sophie Hyde
Screenplay: Katy Brand
Dir. of Photography: Bryan Mason
Music: Stephen Rennicks
Sound: Steve Fanagan
Editor: Bryan Mason
Art Director: Miren Marañón
Producer: Debbie Gray, Adrian Politowski
Production: Genesius Pictures
Cast: Emma Thompson, Daryl McCormack
Sales: Cornerstone Films
Distributor: Forum Film Czech s. r. o.
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