A young woman explores her sexuality, desire, and autonomy in 'Sharp Stick,' filmmaker Lena Dunham's first feature since 'Tiny Furniture' in 2010.
This is why it is all the more remarkable when — hoping to lose her virginity — she enters into a sexual relationship with Josh , the loving father of her young home aide charge, Zach . Despite Josh’s superficial charms, it is clear from the outset that he is a perennial man-child. His pregnant wife, Heather , only weeks from giving birth, is the family’s breadwinner and leaves the home every morning in a gust of stress and anxiety.
Dunham is deft in her characteristic ability to shape an easy yet complex orbit for these three characters. The pleasure in watching Josh, Sarah Jo, and Heather onscreen comes not only from Dunham’s talent for writing and filming wonderfully expansive moments of intimacy between Josh and Sarah Jo, but also in the way she opens up space for all three of their interior lives to fully tangle and inevitably contradict and contend with one another.
This forms only one half of Dunham’s film, however, with the second half of “Sharp Stick” devoting itself to Sarah Jo’s almost semantic ambition to learn and experience more of her sexuality as she continues to understand it. Her self-education is frank and without metaphor, and, in its earlier stages, shaped by the world around her rather than through any sort of autonomous sexual desire.
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