If you loved The Staggering Girl, try Melissa P.

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Both films are directed by Luca Guadagnino, and they both carry the bittersweet, tender mood tags, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Staggering Girl, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Melissa P. is

Teenage desperation meets 1970s Italian excess. A girl navigates first sex under her mother’s roof. Luca Guadagnino turns it into a hazy, tactile portrait of youth’s brutal honesty.

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