Part of an accidental trilogy I created on somewhat strange "love" stories (this along with "Asako I and II" and "Meet Cute").
This film feels like a sort of straw-man argument against the monogamous constraints of human relationships. It reminded me of youthful discussions and/or indiscretions; indeed one of the two extremely attractive leads is a college professor. He comes complete with a swooning coed throwing herself at him. Is he 30 going on 19?
Instead our inveterate bachelor becomes a kept man to his lover whose contractual marriage then pays for their little love flat. While this arrangement I suppose is to show a sort of "true love" in the "s/he just gets me" mode, it felt like innocents playing house. And like a relationship stuck in the infatuation mode.
Anyways, the film may or may not work as a date movie. It sort of let's the viewer's heart and mind race against each other, and perhaps their loins quiver (actually pretty well done soft erotica).
The frisson of infatuation is definitely intoxicating, and the idea of an affair as a secret island for two to share, or in this room with a view, there's a lot of energy to be tapped from that. The allure of making love for hours versus trying to make a marriage over decades, here the former wins a bit too easily.
If marriages were as easy as flings, or as intensely enjoyable....that would be a crazy, and wonderful, thing. We could all be much older, but going on 19...
I always dug the title of an old Sonic Youth album "Confusion is Sex" - marriage might be crazy, but I think it strives to bring clarity to our short chaotic existence.
This film feels like a sort of straw-man argument against the monogamous constraints of human relationships. It reminded me of youthful discussions and/or indiscretions; indeed one of the two extremely attractive leads is a college professor. He comes complete with a swooning coed throwing herself at him. Is he 30 going on 19?
Instead our inveterate bachelor becomes a kept man to his lover whose contractual marriage then pays for their little love flat. While this arrangement I suppose is to show a sort of "true love" in the "s/he just gets me" mode, it felt like innocents playing house. And like a relationship stuck in the infatuation mode.
Anyways, the film may or may not work as a date movie. It sort of let's the viewer's heart and mind race against each other, and perhaps their loins quiver (actually pretty well done soft erotica).
The frisson of infatuation is definitely intoxicating, and the idea of an affair as a secret island for two to share, or in this room with a view, there's a lot of energy to be tapped from that. The allure of making love for hours versus trying to make a marriage over decades, here the former wins a bit too easily.
If marriages were as easy as flings, or as intensely enjoyable....that would be a crazy, and wonderful, thing. We could all be much older, but going on 19...
I always dug the title of an old Sonic Youth album "Confusion is Sex" - marriage might be crazy, but I think it strives to bring clarity to our short chaotic existence.