Hilarious, heartrending Leo Grande hailed

‘‘You’re not paying for the truth,’’ he snaps.

It’s this tension and exploration around how everybody wants something different and everyone has varying turn-ons, turn-offs and foibles, that makes Good Luck to You, Leo Grande such a powerful and compelling story.

There are times when the age gap between the two just melts away and others when it’s rather obvious.

Thought-provoking moments abound from discussions around consent, ageing and body image, to the importance of selfacceptance and love. In a way, it’s this decade’s When Harry Met Sally, a fluid relationship between people providing the backdrop for a wide discussion of love and sex in the modern era.

In another sense, it has similarities to the hugely underrated The Sessions, where Helen Hunt’s sex therapist helps polio patient Mark O’Brien lose his virginity and explore another side to his cloistered life.

What it most definitely is, is a frank, sometimes confronting, but thoroughly entertaining tale that will take you on a rollercoaster of emotions, might just teach you thing or two (regardless of your age) and leave you with a huge smile – and more than satisfied with the experience.

❚ Good Luck to You, Leo Grande is now screening in cinemas nationwide.

Good Luck to You, Leo Grande is essentially a two-hander, with Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack’s characters ‘‘connecting’’ over the course of four ‘‘meetings’’.