?Enjoy Young People Fucking!? says one TIFF patron to her friend. ?Are you ready to watch Young People Fucking?? zings another.  It?s a joke Canadian Feature Programmer Jesse Wente and his colleagues have undoubtedly heard their fair share of.  Even director Martin Gero finds it difficult to believe his distributors let the incendiary title slide.?We kind of came up with it, and thought ?Haha young people fucking?, and we thought we?d give it to people and they?d say ?great working title?, but they loved it, so far so good I guess.?

The title isn?t a publicity stunt, but rather an ideal moniker for a film as frank, sexy and hilarious as Gero?s feature debut. The sophisticated comedy ?goes down? on a number of sexual hang-ups with a depth and style that inspired raucous laughter at Thursday?s premier.

Preceding the delicious slice of urban sexuality was the perfect appetizer:  Robert Kennedy?s two-minute, cell-phone short I?ve Never Had Sex, which approaches the dirty deed with a similarly light-hearted tone.

Written by Gero and star Aaron Abrams (pictured above with Slings and Arrows co-star Sarah Polley), YPF?s appeal isn?t limited to young hipsters. Dozens of seniors were spotted yukking it up in the audience. If you missed the premier, it screens again on Saturday at the Scotiabank Theatre at 9:15 a.m.

Mike Sauve - TIFF Blog Reporter.