Under-appreciated films: For A Good Time Call... (2012)

This 2012 film was hugely popular at film festivals last year and has become hugely popular in the indie film scene so I decided to sit down and watch it. It's a quirky sex comedy that explores the adventures of two girls, previous high school enemies thrown together by a mutual friend, who put aside their differences and set up a phone sex business together to earn money to stay in their luxurious New York apartment.

Full of ribald humour, this is a film that could certainly loosen up an audience as you have to let go of your reservations pretty quickly. It explores relationships, romantic and platonic, and the interesting dynamic between phone sex operators and clients and the exploration of sexual fetishes. This film shows a light-hearted approach to the lives of professional sex workers and showing them in a more positive light than the media would often portray them whilst also setting up an interesting story of friendship; this makes for an unconventional but enjoyable chick flick. This is a funny, sex positive movie that I recommend to anyone. This film is colourfully directed and features excellent performances from Ari Graynor and Lauren Miller. This film is sweet in places with little bursts of hilarity and sentimentality throughout set to a typical, Hollywood cookie-cutter style narrative frame. I'd it's well worth a watch.

This film comes from the magnificent Focus Features, a film company that never steers clear of a controversial film. In fact Focus Films often create feel-good movies that have a positive stance on sexuality and sexual expression. Other Focus Features films I'd recommend: The Kids Are All Right, Milk, Brokeback Mountain, The World's End, Moonrise Kingdom, One Day and Atonement.