A relatively graphic documentary about charismatic Italian swingers should probably elicit more than a tepid shrug, right?
But for all its telling — and showing — of sex, “Bloom Up” never really gets going until its final few minutes. And that late-stage twist occurs during the rare scene in which everyone is fully clothed.
The movie’s middle-aged protagonists, Betta and Hermes, couldn’t be more likable. They’re charming, eloquent, and appear to be madly in love. Despite the fact that they’ve been together for years, they flirt happily while stocking shelves at the pet store they own, defer to each other respectfully in frank conversations for the camera, and share a sensitive dedication to their open marriage that seems to lack even a hint of defensiveness.
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But for all its telling — and showing — of sex, “Bloom Up” never really gets going until its final few minutes. And that late-stage twist occurs during the rare scene in which everyone is fully clothed.
The movie’s middle-aged protagonists, Betta and Hermes, couldn’t be more likable. They’re charming, eloquent, and appear to be madly in love. Despite the fact that they’ve been together for years, they flirt happily while stocking shelves at the pet store they own, defer to each other respectfully in frank conversations for the camera, and share a sensitive dedication to their open marriage that seems to lack even a hint of defensiveness.
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Kino Lorber Acquires Sensual Doc ‘Bloom Up’ About Swinger Lifestyle (Exclusive Video)
Both of them, in fact, have invited director Mauro Russo Rouge...
- 8/26/2022
- by Elizabeth Weitzman
- The Wrap
Jan Oliver Lucks, the New Zealand-based director of “There Is No I in Threesome,” has signed with U.S. talent agency ICM Partners for representation in all areas.
The controversial film about an open relationship premiered on WarnerMedia’s HBO Max streaming service earlier this year and was the first New Zealand movie to do so. “Threesome” will have its theatrical world premiere at the New Zealand International Film Festival in early November.
Lucks, who says he is always interested in film as a tool for exploring vulnerability, turned the camera on himself for “There Is No I In Threesome.” In love, newly engaged and maintaining a long-distance relationship, he and his fiancée decide to throw traditional rules out the window by opening-up their relationship before they tie the knot.
Lucks was born in Germany to an Iranian-Indian mother and a German father. In 2005 he moved to New Zealand to...
The controversial film about an open relationship premiered on WarnerMedia’s HBO Max streaming service earlier this year and was the first New Zealand movie to do so. “Threesome” will have its theatrical world premiere at the New Zealand International Film Festival in early November.
Lucks, who says he is always interested in film as a tool for exploring vulnerability, turned the camera on himself for “There Is No I In Threesome.” In love, newly engaged and maintaining a long-distance relationship, he and his fiancée decide to throw traditional rules out the window by opening-up their relationship before they tie the knot.
Lucks was born in Germany to an Iranian-Indian mother and a German father. In 2005 he moved to New Zealand to...
- 10/27/2021
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
The Whānau Mārama New Zealand International Film Festival (Nziff) has revealed 12 local titles that will play at the festival this year.
The films include eight documentaries, two dramas and two retrospective films and seven of them are world premieres. Following its U.S. premiere on HBO Max, Jan Oliver Lucks’ “There Is No I in Threesome” will have its theatrical world premiere at the festival.
Films also include Michelle Savill’s “Millie Lies Low”; Luit Bieringa’s “Signed, Theo Schoon”; Peter Bell Brook’s “Mark Hunt: The Fight of His Life”; and Lula Cucchiara “Fiona Clark: Unafraid.”
Briar March’s “Mothers of the Revolution”; a restored and remastered version of pioneering filmmaker Merata Mita’s landmark film “Patu!”; Tu Neill’s “Ayukawa: The Weight of a Life”; John Mills and Aileen O’Sullivan’s “Whetu Marama – Bright Star”; Kathleen Gallagher’s “Rohe Kōreporepo – The Swamp, the Sacred Place” And Dr. Annie Goldson...
The films include eight documentaries, two dramas and two retrospective films and seven of them are world premieres. Following its U.S. premiere on HBO Max, Jan Oliver Lucks’ “There Is No I in Threesome” will have its theatrical world premiere at the festival.
Films also include Michelle Savill’s “Millie Lies Low”; Luit Bieringa’s “Signed, Theo Schoon”; Peter Bell Brook’s “Mark Hunt: The Fight of His Life”; and Lula Cucchiara “Fiona Clark: Unafraid.”
Briar March’s “Mothers of the Revolution”; a restored and remastered version of pioneering filmmaker Merata Mita’s landmark film “Patu!”; Tu Neill’s “Ayukawa: The Weight of a Life”; John Mills and Aileen O’Sullivan’s “Whetu Marama – Bright Star”; Kathleen Gallagher’s “Rohe Kōreporepo – The Swamp, the Sacred Place” And Dr. Annie Goldson...
- 9/9/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
A couple’s polyamorous Rumspringa before tying the knot is only the jumping-off point for the new HBO Max meta-documentary There Is No I in Threesome. Director Jan Oliver Lucks, who goes by Ollie, and his actress-fiancée, Zoe, are an attractive, creative, 30-ish pair living in a vintage camper in a small New Zealand town when they aren’t in a long-distance relationship because of their respective jobs. Opening up that relationship gives Ollie opportunities to make up for a sexually wasted youth and further explore his attraction to other men. But it’s Zoe who reaps most of the benefits of their arrangement,...
- 2/10/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
A couple’s polyamorous Rumspringa before tying the knot is only the jumping-off point for the new HBO Max meta-documentary There Is No I in Threesome. Director Jan Oliver Lucks, who goes by Ollie, and his actress-fiancée, Zoe, are an attractive, creative, 30-ish pair living in a vintage camper in a small New Zealand town when they aren’t in a long-distance relationship because of their respective jobs. Opening up that relationship gives Ollie opportunities to make up for a sexually wasted youth and further explore his attraction to other men. But it’s Zoe who reaps most of the benefits of their arrangement,...
- 2/10/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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