PAYING FOR IT” is a live-action adaptation of Chester Brown’s best-selling graphic novel, directed and co-written by Sook-Yin Lee. The film stars Dan Beirne (“TWENTIETH CENTURY,” “PRISCILLA”), Emily Lê (“RICEBOY SLEEPS”), and Andrea Werhun (“MODERN WHORE,” “THRIVING: A DISSOCIATIVE REVERIE”).
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. Paying For It is directed and co-written by Sook-Yin Lee, and adapted from the graphic novel by Chester Brown. The Sunday screening & Q&A is a collaboration with our neighbour Pages Books who will have the available for sale re-issue of Paying For It, the graphic novel, in a new paperback edition from Drawn & Quarterly, with a cover by Chester Brown inspired by the film adaptation, an introduction written by director Lee, as well as expanded notes, movie stills, behind-the-scenes photographs, and artwork that Brown created for the production. The director will be available to sign some copies of your purchase.
🎬 Event: ‘Paying For It’ Post-Screening + Q&A with director Sook-Yin Lee
📍 Location: The Plaza (1133 Kensington Road NW)
🎥 Trailer: Watch below
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