BFI London Film Fest Review: Eva Husson’s Racy Coming-Of-Age Tale ‘Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story)’

Sex and coming-of-age movies have gone hand in hand since cinema started making Bildungsromans. The discovery of our sexuality, and the early incidents that help to shape it, are some of the key things that help push us into adulthood, and even when cinema was restricted by censorship and Production Codes, sex remained a key part of cinematic adolescence.

These days, you can get away with showing almost anything on screen, as Gaspar Noé reminded us earlier in the year with "Love." But as that film proved, plentiful nudity and explicit content doesn't necessarily lead to a particularly insightful approach to sexual awakenings; it's still relatively rare for a movie to deal with the subject in a raw and honest way. And while it's nowhere near as explicit as "Love," Eva Husson's debut feature "Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story)" certainly has button-pushing credentials of its own. Unfortunately, while Husson clearly has talent to burn, her film is...