Paying for It

March 22nd screening with filmmaker Sook-Yin Lee in attendance, in partnership with the Montreal Critics’ Week, , the Montreal Comic Arts Festival, and the “Beyond the 2 Solitudes” research group

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.