All I gotta say is that the TITTLE caught my attention and I would think that putting it as the tittle of this thread will cause other curious minds to open up this thread. Yeap: It's part of the TIFF and is playing:
The great New Yorker critic Pauline Kael once wrote that sex was the great leveller in life. Nowhere is that more apparent than in Martin Geros clever, beautifully crafted romantic comedy Young People ****ing, which casts a cold eye on modern love in its various permutations. Focusing on five different archetypal relationships, the film demonstrates, with often painful accuracy, how all relationships are simultaneously specific and somehow bizarrely similar.
The narrative shifts between four couples and one threesome. Abby (Kristin Booth), the sexually frustrated blonde ingénue, and Andrew (Josh Dean), her toothy, ultra-caring boyfriend, are stuck in a domestic rut. Matt (Aaron Abrams, who co-wrote the script with Gero) and Kristen (Carly Pope), two longtime friends, have decided to have sex to get their previous disastrous relationships out of their systems. Exes Mia (Sonja Bennett) and Eric (Josh Cooke) are on a post-mortem date after their breakup. Ken (Callum Blue), a British émigré and known player, and the innocent, much younger Jamie (Diora Baird) are on a first date. Rounding out the idiosyncratic cast of characters are Gord (Ennis Esmer), who seems permanently wired; his reticent and dour roommate, Dave (Peter Oldring); and Gords as he puts it impossibly hot girlfriend Inez, (Natalie Lisinska).
The narrative strands do not cross and the various couples (and the trio) never interact, but they are linked by their fear or ignorance of their own desires, their terror of expressing those feelings, and their crippling insecurities. Revealing anything further about the plot would probably be criminal (the relationships may be archetypal, but the resolutions arent everyone here has secrets); however, it would be remiss not to say a bit more about the unusual development of the final scenario. Gord and Lisa are about to move in together, as Gord has grown increasingly frustrated with Daves obscenely slovenly habits. However, the bossy Gord who begins every comment to Dave with Look, Im not trying to be a dick here suddenly proposes a ménage à trois, which, for Gord, means sitting in an easy chair eating cookie dough while encouraging Dave in his efforts with Lisa.
The performers in this fantastic ensemble are universally excellent, and Esmers turn as Gord is particularly memorable. Its only one of the many good reasons to recommend this film, which is one of the sharpest, most entertaining debuts by a Canadian director in quite a while.
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