Mike McCahill 

Come As You Are – review

The twist in this crowdpleasing post-Porky teenpic is that the three horny boys trying to lose their virginity have disabilities, writes Mike McCahill
  
  

Come As You Are
Crowdpleaser … Come As You Are Photograph: PR

This Belgian romp heads south in the vein of countless post-Porky's teenpics, following a trio of horny young men keen to unload their virginities during a visit to a Spanish brothel. There's a twist, though: paraplegic Philip, blind Jozef and wheelchair-bound Lars have very different relationships with their own bodies. Inspired by the story of Asta Philpot, the Leeds lad whose attempts to juggle sexual satisfaction with arthrogryposis were first set out in a BBC1 documentary, Geoffrey Enthoven's movie doesn't quite push the representational envelope in the way two previous films involving disability, 2000's Uneasy Riders or 2004's Aaltra, did: these boys' frustrations and hang-ups get worked out with cinematic TLC. Still, it's an unarguable crowdpleaser, gently nudging everybody along to a more enlightened, not to mention more relaxed, place.

 

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