Saturday Movie: The Sessions (2012)

Ben Lewin has created a charming movie with The Sessions. It is sort of setting movies on a new trend of not just treating sex as something that gets lost in lust and nudity, but does explore the deeper implications of what it means to people, in this particular case a man, Mark. He's 39 and is feeling the missing piece of having the human connection. Sex isn't just something that women and men even do for a feeling but it does for many signify the feeling of being an adult, and most want to feel that intimacy that accompanies it.

Mark has an iron lung, one of the repercussions of catching polio at a young age. After a failed attempt to connect to the woman who is taking care of him he searches out a sex therapist with the encouragement of his priest, Father Brendan. Being Catholic, it is still important for Mark not to feel he is betraying his beliefs either in his want to lose his virginity. Cheryl is hired to help Mark lose his virginity, but also help him be able to connect to others. This does lead to some complications though as the two begin to fall for each other.