Gleeson a Sensation in sharp tale

Writer and director Tom Hall's droll and daring Irish sex comedy Sensation is a coming-of-age story about a timid Limerick farmer who meets a New Zealand call girl, falls in love for the first time and learns something about how the world works.

Opening with a scene where lonely, twentysomething Donal (Domhnall Gleeson) masturbates in a field while his flock of sheep look on bemused, Hall sets a confidently-complicated tone pitched somewhere between ...