Married/Unmarried

There are scenes in this film that make your jaw drop. Not by effects or plot twists, but by words. Some of the dialogue and interchanges between the four protagonists of this wordy and questionably disfunctional film are as raw as anything I've heard on celluloid. Writer/director Noli attacks the senses via your ears and offers an anti-antidote with sugar-coated visuals that make the nastiness seem even more harrowing. The story is nothing new, two couples talk sex, indulge in quite a lot of it, and there are no happy families, but the relentless commitment to denouncing love and fidelity makes this uncomfortable yet compelling viewing. Overlong with little reward but contemplation of your own relationships in the bleakest of sense, this remains a searing autopsy on marriage and monogamy. Great acting throughout, especially from the women who suffer the verbal onslaught with towering performances. Heartstopping.

This is a unique film. I cannot compare it to anything I have seen before. The director's stark words and powerful images leave an indelible mark. The acting is excellent and shows true courage as there is much nudity and sexual abuse. Mark Ryder's music complements the disturbing images superbly and shows that he is one of the very best in the business. This is a film to see.

Two couples exchange explicit revelations and bodily fluids in a brutal and suffocating drama which destroys the notion of happy ever after as bleakly as anything ever depicted on screen. Despite heralding this film I question whether it should have been banned. The seething misogyny of one its lead characters is extremely disturbing, expressly emphasizing the power of the spoken word over the iron fist. The performances are of the highest quality, the lacerating dialogue as brilliant or offensive as recent contempories Todd Solanz and Neil Labute. A talking heads movie that needs to be heard to be believed.

This unsettling film has as its central theme that monogamy is somewhat cancerous, though not as cancerous as the deeply unpleasant characters who share this view. Set within color-coded interiors, very striking if a little garish, the film unfolds to reveal each character more deviant than the last and the whole married/unmarried combo-interaction between the four friends seems to fuse into one giant amoral heap that leaves the viewer numb and about as unromantic as one can feel! However, there is something extremely gripping about the whole experience, the brutality of the language, the bravery of the performance and possibly the sheer bravado of the director to make such a hateful film. A previous reviewer hailed the film misogynistic - which one character certainly is - but then proceeds not to comment on the actresses performances in the film but indeed praise their 'nipples' instead. And he calls the FILM misogynistic!!! Idiot! Not for everyone, clearly, but an unsettling alternative to the relationship drama.

What sort of person would.- a - make this type of movie? b - like this type of movie?

Pretentious, vile crap. Don't bother.