Lovelife DVD Review:

The grass is always greener on the other side. This film has been made a dozen times by different people since the sixties. A sextet of grad-students try swapping girlfriends and boyfriends when things aren’t working out in their own relationships, in the movie Lovelife. This film has everything. It has the best friend who is secretly in love with her attached guy friend, the older man pursuing the younger woman, and even a peeping tom.

With everything in the film, and all of the cheating they do on each other, it would have been a miracle if this film were to have worked out the way the filmmakers imagined. Instead it is a cliché filled disaster of a film which focuses on a group of very confused people making very obvious mistakes. This film may have been bearable if the characters in the film had been high school, or even college age, but as a group nearly in their thirties they act rather immature. Honesty is unheard of, fidelity is a joke, and they don’t understand the meaning of happiness although they are very snobby about what they do understand. Most of the film is filled with their intellectual superiority taking over for the fact that they are all an emotional disaster. Wrapping things up neatly at the end only further proves how silly the film is.

There are a few characters who are genuinely likable, while others are easily detestable, but it doesn’t matter much once the story gets moving. The events which unfold force us to watch even the most liked characters squirm and be tortured by heartache until they are so painful to watch it is irritating. The only thing saving this film is the ability to take it far less serious than it seems everyone involved is taking it.

The DVD has nothing, except a menu which is far better than the film. Stay away at all costs, unless infidelity films happen to be a personal favorite of yours.



Ryan Izay