Now & Later

Sex, politics and American culture are mixed into a combustible combination in Now & Later. Angela (a terrific Shari Solanis) is an illegal immigrant Latina living in Los Angeles who stumbles across Bill, a disgraced banker on the run. She takes him in and through passionate sex, soul-searching conversations ranging from politics to philosophy, and other worldly pleasures, the affair changes his life. The film was conceived by the director in reaction to Americans’ penchant for violence in our movies and our culture and our tendency to censor sex far more quickly than violence. Familiar with Wilhelm Reich’s notion that a sexually repressed society becomes a violent one, Diaz makes an unabashedly sexual yet cerebral film that challenges the perception that sex in media is harmful.

“Exudes an amiably accessible vibe that softens the edges of its freewheeling explicitness.” (Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times)

“The most sexplicit romp you'll encounter in theaters this year, guaranteed!” (Kam Williams, NewsBlaze)