Love Exposure vs The Sessions
Love Exposure has the higher audience score (8/10 against 6.9/10 for The Sessions). The Sessions is the shorter watch at 1h 35m compared with 3h 57m. Love Exposure is the older of the two (2009 against 2012). Both are comedy, drama, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Love Exposure
The Sessions| Love Exposure | The Sessions | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.0/10 | ★ 6.9/10 |
| Year | 2009 | 2012 |
| Length | 3h 57m | 1h 35m |
| Genres | Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance | Comedy, Drama, Romance |
| Country | Japan | – |
| Director | Sion Sono | Ben Lewin |
| Main cast | Hikari Mitsushima, Atsuro Watabe, Makiko Watanabe, Hiroyuki Onoue, Tasuku Nagaoka | W. Earl Brown, John Hawkes, William H. Macy, Helen Hunt, Adam Arkin |
Synopsis
Love Exposure
The story of a teenage boy named Yu, who falls for Yoko, a girl he runs into while operating for the sake of sin as an "up-skirt" photographer. His attempts to woo her are complicated by a spot of cross-dressing – which convinces Yoko that she is lesbian – dalliances with kung-fu and crime, and a constant struggle with the guilt that's a legacy of his Catholic upbringing.
The Sessions
Though a childhood bout with polio left him dependent on an iron lung, Mark O'Brien maintains a career as a journalist and poet. A writing assignment dealing with sex and the disabled piques Mark's curiosity, and he decides to investigate the possibility of experiencing sex himself. When his overtures toward a caregiver scare her away, he books an appointment with sex surrogate Cheryl Cohen-Greene to lose his virginity.
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