I was terrified that this wouldn’t hold up. Instead I find it as breathtaking as I ever did, maybe even more so. I had forgotten how funny, and sweet, and gentle this is. That gentleness is what I love most about it, what it’s really “about,” and why I think it still feels fresh and startling and vulnerable decades later.
This was one of those formative movies for me, expressing something that felt so true to my understanding of sex…