Funerals & Snakes

Funerals & Snakes

Something to watch tonight: Tuesday 14 November

The Sessions (Lewin, 2012)

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Dan Slevin
Nov 14, 2023
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Eleven years ago this week I reviewed Ben Lewin’s lovely film The Sessions for the Capital Times and I described it as “… the best film about therapy since Good Will Hunting and one of the best films about anything this year.”

Poet Mark O’Brien (John Hawkes) was crippled with polio as a child and forced to spend more than 20 hours a day in an iron lung, …

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