Perhaps some young men’s fantasy, this story written by a man named Christopher James Hampton from Portugal and adapted into screenplay by the well-known Anne Fontaine (Chloe, Coco Before Chanel) from Luxembourg; this 2013 drama was disturbing to the max yet viewers found it hard to rip their eyes from the screens. Although they didn’t make it big at the box-office this story was so provocative and insanely sensational that it got 5 nominations that year and even more buzz with it’s numerous reviews. Mothers who are life-long friends who fall in love with each other’s sons’; is enough to raise quite a few eye-brows! But it is a topic like this that gets people talking and furthermore confronts the philosopher Freud in all of us.
Set in a suburb of paradise Australia by the sea and paired off with chiseled surfer actors Xavier Samuel and James Frecheville. If the story doesn’t spark some interest the lovely aesthetics will. Oscar nominated English actress Naomi Watts and Golden Globe winner American actress Robin Wright play the adults with lusty emotions. Rated R for sexual language and content this is not a family bonding type film.
This is Fontaine’s first film directed completely in English and she does an excellent job with weaving this controversial tale into a thought-provoking masterpiece. Magnetic and fascinating to say the least but unbelievable in many respects; not just by the relationships ensued but simply by the seemingly comfort this family had despite the tensions and conflicts it would cause in society not to mention the safe and wealthy lifestyles they all lived in. I found it difficult to connect with the overwhelming and unexpected desperation and loneliness that lead our main characters to make infantile decisions.
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