| Young People Fucking | |
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| Directed by | Martin Gero |
| Produced by | Martin Gero Aaron Abrams |
| Written by | Martin Gero Aaron Abrams |
| Starring | Aaron Abrams Diora Baird Sonja Bennett Callum Blue Kristin Booth Josh Cooke Josh Dean Enis Esmer Natalie Lisinska Peter Oldring Carly Pope |
| Cinematography | Arthur E. Cooper |
| Editing by | Mike Banas |
| Distributed by | Maple Pictures (Canada) Revolver Entertainment (UK) THINKFilm (USA) |
| Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1.4 million CDN[1] |
Young People Fucking, also called Y.P.F., is a 2007 romantic comedy directed, written and produced by Martin Gero and Aaron Abrams. It debuted at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival. "Our generation makes an effort to separate love and sex," says Gero. "They're all trying to do this thing, and they're all failing miserably ... we're saying, 'Listen, people our age. This is really hard to do without being emotionally involved.'"[2]
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The film intertwines the story of four different couples and one threesome over the course of one sexual encounter, with specific chapters for each one: prelude, foreplay, sex, interlude, orgasm and afterglow. Each couple represents a specific archetype:
The film was at the center of a Canadian political controversy in 2006. The Canadian federal government enacted Bill C-10, allowing the government to retroactively strip tax credits from films deemed "offensive or not in the public interest" by the Heritage Minister.[3] A special screening was held in Ottawa, which was well-attended by opposition Members of Parliament, although no MPs from the governing Conservative Party attended. One staffer for Cambridge MP Gary Goodyear was fired for reserving a ticket in his name without permission. Reviews were generally positive, with Liberal Heritage critic Denis Coderre awarding the film three stars and describing it as a "social reality check." New Democratic Party Heritage critic Bill Siksay said, "I had a good time, I laughed a lot. There was some serious exploration of relationships, but it was fun. [...] What I would find offensive is that anybody would try and enforce their own sense of personal taste to prohibit a movie like that from being made." Martin Gero said that, "I think we're an easy target — we've got a swear in the title. And also no one's seen it. So it's easy for the pro-C-10 people, whoever they are, I've only met one, to say ... this is obviously pornography, we want to shut it down."[4]