The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (2023) review

Thirty-three-year-old Ann (Arnow), who works for an unnamed business and is severely underappreciated (her boss proudly declares "people can become obsolete"), tells her much-older (and divorced) partner Allen (Scott Cohen) that she wants to be his "submissive" so they engage in soft BDSM practices, but she tires of him and then starts seeing other men, including musician Chris (Babak Tafti).  It plays out in this deadpan manner that I'm guessing is supposed to be intentionally awkward, except I didn't find the majority of it to be even moderately entertaining: director-star-editor Arnow (a real-life Wesleyan grad), despite being frequently nude and in compromising positions, is too "self-aware" (and smug) for any of it to actually be effective, and the "degradation" is done with an ironic wink ("suck my nipple!").  Using the cinema as personal therapy is generally advised against, but I'm certain it's all "for show": it's one thing to expose your flesh, another to expose your soul.