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Farah Goes Bang
Friday, Mar 14, 2014 7:00 PM
Farah Mahtab’s sex life is a litany of awkward encounters. This 20-something is eager to lose her virginity and unearth her desirability. Will a cross-country road trip with her best friends Roopa and K.J. to canvass for 2004 presidential candidate John Kerry provide the sweet release she craves?
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Twenty-something Farah Mahtab is eager to shake the unwanted “virgin” moniker, but her sex life is a litany of awkward, fumbled encounters. When best friends Roopa and KJ, propose a cross-country road-trip to stump for presidential nominee John Kerry, there is a not-so-secret hope that the trip will provide Farah the sweet release she craves. The trio soon finds that wide-eyed optimism isn’t always a surefire catalyst for sex or politics — even in a swing state. Meera Menon’s directorial debut artfully captures a generation’s mixture of hope and youthful disillusionment in the fledgling years of a post-9/11 world, and points a finger at the way national discourse shapes the identity and sexual politics of young women. An ode to female companionship a la THELMA & LOUISE, and with all the raunchy humor of BRIDESMAIDS, Menon subverts the classic tropes of the road-trip film in favor of a new American feminism, complete with discussions of female grooming and sexual desire. Winner of the Nora Ephron Prize at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival.

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Year:2013
Language:English