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Ben Lewin (Polonia, 6 de agosto de 1946) [1] es un director, australiano de origen polaco, conocido por dirigir películas como Las sesiones o El favor, el reloj, y el gran pescado.
Ben Lewin (born 1946) is an Australian director. Early life and education. Ben Lewin was born in Poland. As a child, he emigrated with his family to Melbourne, Australia. [1] . At the age of six, he contracted polio which has caused him to use crutches for the rest of his life. [2] . Lewin attended the University of Melbourne where he studied law.
Producer. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Ben Lewin's career as a writer and director is spread across three continents and includes award-winning documentaries, feature films, TV movies, mini-series and episodic programs. Born in Poland in 1946, he migrated to Australia with his family in 1949.
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Mini Bio. Ben Lewin's career as a writer and director is spread across three continents and includes award-winning documentaries, feature films, TV movies, mini-series and episodic programs. Born in Poland in 1946, he migrated to Australia with his family in 1949.
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In Berkeley, California, in 1988, Mark O'Brien is a 38-year-old poet who is forced to live in an iron lung due to complications from polio. Due to his condition, he has never had sex. After unsuccessfully proposing to his caretaker Amanda, and sensing he may be near death, he decides he wants to lose his virginity. After consulting his priest, Fath...
The Sessions is based upon Mark O'Brien's collection of personal essays in The Sun Magazine. The film and the essays both discuss the intersection of disability and sexuality in O'Brien's life. In the essays, O'Brien writes from a "crip/queer" perspective to refute his own experience of sexual prohibition as a disabled person. In some instances, di...
John Hawkes as Mark O'BrienHelen Hunt as Cheryl Cohen-GreeneBackground
O'Brien was a journalist and poet who was paralyzed from the neck down by polio since his childhood. O'Brien breathed with the support of an iron lung for much of his life. At age 38, he hired sex surrogate Cheryl Cohen-Greene to help him lose his virginity. The film is based on an article O'Brien published about his experiences with Greene, "On Seeing a Sex Surrogate", which appeared in The Sunmagazine in 1990. O'Brien's life was chronicled in the 1996 short documentary Breathing Lessons: Th...
Development
Writer and director Ben Lewin, a polio survivor himself, first read about O'Brien's experiences with a sex surrogate from O'Brien's article "On Seeing a Sex Surrogate" on the Internet. He stumbled onto the article while researching sex and the disabled for a semi-autobiographical sitcom project. Lewin explained, "I felt that if I could do on film what he had done to me with his writing, then I could potentially deliver something powerful."While writing the script, Lewin drew from his own expe...
Casting
John Hawkes said Lewin met and read with several disabled actors to take on the role of O'Brien but said "none of them felt quite right" for the character. Hawkes was drawn to the script due to Lewin's own experiences as a polio survivor. He read every article written by O'Brien, every poem by O'Brien he could find and credited Breathing Lessonsfor helping with his preparation: "It's 25 minutes of Mark O'Brien speaking frankly and often emotionally about his life … him being washed, getting o...
The Sessions premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival as The Surrogate. According to Rachel Dodes, "the energy in the room was palpable" and the cast received several standing ovations. Fox Searchlight Pictures immediately acquired the film, paying $6 million for worldwide rights to it, a fee considered unusually high. The film has grossed $6,0...
Critical response
The Sessions has an approval rating of 91% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 203 reviews, and an average rating of 7.84/10. The website's critical consensus states, "Tender, funny, and touching, The Sessions provides an acting showcase for its talented stars and proves it's possible for Hollywood to produce a grown-up movie about sex". It also has a score of 79 out of 100 on Metacritic, based on 39 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
Reviews
The Sessions was considered one of the 2012 Sundance breakout hits. John Hawkes received two prolonged standing ovations at the film's screening.It was praised by critics at the festival as "accessible, enjoyable, and light-hearted". Linda Holmes, writing for NPR, called the film's performances "uniformly terrific". Variety's Peter Debruge said, "performances are paramount in a film like this, and Hawkes works some kind of miracle despite the self-evident physical limitations of the role." To...
Awards
The film received the Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic while the cast received a Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Acting at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. Both Hawkes and Hunt received Independent Spirit Awards for their performances. The Sessions won the Audience Award at the San Sebastián International Film Festival. Ben Lewin received a nomination for Best International Direction at the 2nd AACTA International Awards, while Hawkes was nominated for Best International Actor.
The Sessions at IMDbThe Sessions at AllMovieThe Sessions at Rotten TomatoesThe Sessions at MetacriticBen Lewin (Polonia, 6 de agosto de 1946) [1] es un director, australiano de origen polaco, conocido por dirigir películas como Las sesiones o El favor, el reloj, y el gran pescado. Quick facts: Ben Lewin, Información personal, Nacimiento, ...
19 de nov. de 2012 · When writer-director Ben Lewin first came across polio victim Mark O’Brien’s 1990 article, “ On Seeing a Sex Surrogate ,” he was immediately intrigued: A 38 year-old man confined to an iron lung for 80% of his day, and largely paralyzed from the neck down, seeks to lose his virginity. Though Lewin had also suffered from polio as a child ...
