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MAKE IT LOOK REAL

Australia, 2024, 78 minutes, Colour.

Claire Warden, Kieran Darcy Smith, Sarah Roberts, Tom Davis, Albert Zwangi.

Directed by Kate Blakemore.

The “It” of the title of this documentary is movie scenes of intimacy. In recent years, especially with the Me-Too# movement, there have been an increasing number of intimacy coordinators employed on film sets and receiving credits.

Claire Warden, originally from Guernsey, working in the US and around the world is a professional intimacy coordinator. The film gives something of her background, her parents and encouragement, her wanting to be an actress but finding at 6 feet tall, few offers. She is enthusiastic about her work, its importance, the MeToo# Movement, her style in contributing to moviemaking.

The screenplay written and directed by Kate Blakemore, focuses on Australian actor and director, Kieran Darcy Smith, and his screenplay for a film called Tightrope. There are three intimacy scenes in his film. Three actors, who have made contributions to Australian films, have been chosen for key parts. There are to be three intimacy sequences.

Claire Warden arrives in Sydney to work with Kieran Darcy Smith, discussions with him about the three scenes, what is written, his intentions, their contribution to the plot. Audiences will find the sequences of these discussions very interesting as background to how films are made, the attention to details, respect for the actors – and many comments that this was not so in the past, in fact, a collage of voiced testimonies by prominent actresses with the names of the films they are complaining about, highlighting manipulative action by directors. They include Jennifer Lawrence, Keira Knightly, Jessica Lange…

Claire Warden has extensive discussions with each of the three actors, again very interesting in hearing of Claire’s methodology, her sensitivities, her respect for the actors and their choices, helping them to clarify what their attitudes are and noting their expectations. This happens with the three actors.

Then there are the rehearsals, the discussions about the intimate sequences, behaviour, issues of nudity, issues of simulated sexual activity, limits, angles, taking into account the expectations of the actors. Then follows the actual filming, the couple and their relationship, their intimacy, and then their decision to employ a young man from an agency, please continual focus on the sensitivities about the sequences for the threesome, able to suggest the reality of the plot while all the time respecting the actors.

Then, at the end, the sequences are played with the actors watching giving the audience an opportunity to see the finished product and know all the discussions and planning that went into the making of the sequences.

The audience gets a good impression of intimacy coordinators and their challenges, and a good impression where director and actors are involved in dialogue with respect for them and their opinions and expectations.