Sundance Review: Lena Dunham’s ‘Sharp Stick’
deadline.comLena Dunham hasn’t made a feature film since Tiny Furniture 12 years ago, but she has some plausible excuses—running Girls for six seasons, conceiving another series, writing two books, acting here and there.
It took the pandemic to get her behind the camera again and, low and behold, the resulting film is about people living in very close quarters, not going out much and, at least for some, having a lot of sex.
Sharp Stick brims over with the energy of young people who wanted to make something, quickly and down and dirty. The result is an invigorating film about a beautiful woman who, in her mid-20s, sheds her lifelong avoidance of sex to dive into the deep end.
The FilmNation production is making its world premiere in the Premieres section of this year’s festival.It’s fairly safe to say that no film has ever centered on a protagonist with an explained sexual history quite like that of the main character.
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