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How to Please a Woman

How to Please a Woman

Romance · Comedy · Drama · 2022

When her all-male house-cleaning business gets out of control, a mature woman must embrace her own sexuality, if she is to make a new life for herself.

Movie details

How to Please a Woman

“Pleasure is a serious business.”

2022 Romance · Comedy · Drama 1h 47m

Critical arithmetic

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TMDB

6.3 / 10

Community rating

When her all-male house-cleaning business gets out of control, a mature woman must embrace her own sexuality, if she is to make a new life for herself.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.

The archetype split

Who fights over How to Please a Woman?

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Renée Webster

Written by

Renée Webster

Sally Phillips

Sally Phillips

Gina

Hayley McElhinney

Hayley McElhinney

Hayley

Caroline Brazier

Caroline Brazier

Sandra

Tasma Walton

Tasma Walton

Monique

Erik Thomson

Erik Thomson

Steve

Alexander England

Alexander England

Tom

Nina Young

Nina Young

Jane

Court is in session

Put How to Please a Woman on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Sentimental Softie

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.