How to Please a Woman review – Sally Phillips dishes out sex-positive domestic gods

Arriving like a sexy bus to a public transport orgy, that is the second comedy in a matter of weeks, after Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, about girls hiring intercourse staff. Be that a comfortable coincidence or the beginning of a pattern, it’s cheering that each movies are so entertaining, physique optimistic and upbeat however nonetheless fully completely different experiences. This tackle the fabric is ready in Australia and revolves round Gina (performed by the protean Sally Phillips), a center supervisor of a sure age, caught in a purposeful however virtually sexless marriage. When Gina’s buddies membership collectively to pay good-looking transferring firm worker Tom (Chris Hemsworth-lookalike Alexander England) to reach at her home and strip for her on her birthday, she turns city his provide of intercourse and requests that he assist clear the lounge as an alternative.

The encounter vegetation a seed in Gina’s thoughts when she will get made redundant at her personal workplace and Tom’s transferring firm is about to be forcibly shuttered by the identical outfit. As entrepreneurial as she is sexually pissed off, Gina arranges to show the transferring firm right into a service for girls that gives its burly male workers as intercourse staff who additionally scrub flooring or do another home chore the shopper needs. The entire idea is a bit daft, but it surely provides the movie an opportunity to create comedy out of the Full Monty-style transformation of the schlubby blokes into delicate lovers, with the assistance of Gina’s many buddies who join the service.

The top result's nowhere close to as persuasive or grounded in strong screenwriting as Leo Grande is, however Phillips has all the time been a charmer onscreen and, like Grande’s Emma Thompson, she’s greater than keen to make use of her expertise right here to make a case for girls studying to handle and take cost of their very own pleasure.

How you can Please a Lady is launched on 8 July on Sky Cinema, and is screening now in Australian cinemas.

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