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Réalisation:
Jana PočtováPhotographie:
Jakub HalousekMusique:
Ondřej Sifon AnděraRésumés(1)
The film is an inquiry into contemporary forms of alternative models of partnerships. For many protagonists, polyamory, open marriage or long-term lover-to-lover relationships present a fulfilling life style, but also a struggle with misunderstanding of the society or conflicts within their own relationships. The director follows the development of relations of her protagonists over several years, while in intimate talks, she searches for the joy, striving and insecurities brought along by such unusual faces of love, revealing a need for redefining partnership in our times. (Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival)
(plus)Critiques (1)
Perhaps unintentionally, the resulting form of the documentary is an extremely negative portrayal of all types of relationships depicted. It is rife with stereotypes and casual situations without explanation. The episode on polyamorous relationships from the Queer series in season 7 presented people from polyamorous circles more effectively. In this segment, even Fro's gender is not explained. An aging mistress momentarily believes "he will get divorced for her," only to bitterly regret it later. A hippie community cultivates free love; she is constantly searching, while he only envies material possessions, and the solution is, of course, another "latecomer." A divorced woman enjoys herself on dating sites for several years, searching for an elusive ideal, only to reconcile "with the younger one" who was the reason for the divorce. And the biggest mess involves a religious couple from Moravia, where she divorced the father of her first child to live "better," resulting in a dull husband who, after her difficult childbirth (where both her and the child's life were threatened), would rather help his mom with chores. Terrible.
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