Dir. Sook-Yin Lee
2024, Canada, 85 min
Rated 18A
Paying For It is a live-action adaptation of acclaimed alternative-cartoonist Chester Brown’s best-selling graphic novel. In the late 90s, Chester and Sonny are a long-term, committed, romantic couple. When Sonny wants to redefine their relationship, Chester, an introverted cartoonist, starts sleeping with sex workers and discovers a new kind of intimacy in the process. Paying For It is about love, sex and non-monogamy for adults. It deals with the complicated subject of the exchange for sex-work versus the complications of romantic love.
Please join us on February 23 at 7pm for a Q&A with director Sook-Yin Lee. Presented in partnership with McNally Robinson Booksellers.
