Man Eating Pussy at London Film Festival and Sitges, Oct 2026 At the beginning of Emily ‘Lee’ Lawson’s directorial debut Man Eating Pussy, as a young couple (Nicolette Pearse, Harrison Browne) kisses passionately against a wall in a gaudily yellow-lit hotel corridor, the much older, bespectacled and bow-tied Freddy (Julian Richings) wanders past. Carrying a…
Young, smart Brighton Beach sex worker Anora “Ani” Mikheeva (Mikey Madison) meets the even younger Ivan “Vanya” Zakharov (Mark Eydelshteyan), a super rich, utterly entitled son of a Russian oligarch – and as their encounter in the strip joint where Ani dances leads to a whirlwind of sex on demand and swanky parties, the naïve,…
The Last Days of Capitalism begins with a moment of intimacy: impressionistic, soft-focus close-ups of a couple in the bliss of sexual congress, their two bodies become one. Yet in keeping with the title of Adam Mervis’ feature debut, this relationship is also entirely transactional, and doomed to come to an end. Not that…