Carnal Knowledge

"Carnal Knowledge" (1971) is a comedy-drama film that chronicles the lives of two lifelong friends navigating complex sexual encounters and emotional entanglements as they wrestle with societal norms and personal desires in 1940s and 1950s New York City. The film follows the on-again, off-again relationships between its two main characters, Sandy and Jonathan, who share intimate details about their romantic conquests with each other, leading to a web of duplicity, heartbreak, and confusion that spans nearly three decades.