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The Intimacy Between Two Young People

Sally Kohn: "I loved exactly all the things we've talked about. I love the fact that Sally takes the intimacy between two young people seriously" She writes positively about intimacy and about sexuality and about sex, she doesn't pathologize it or problematize it Or make it like glossy. And then on top of that, it's Irish, I'm Irish and I still live here, but I haven't shot anything here for like nearly a decade." It felt like a really brilliant account of contemporary Ireland, which appealed to me as somebody who comes from here and wants to see it reflected on screen.

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