Munch-Fals’ script follows Adam, who has so far been spoiled by life – a good job, a lovely wife, an expensive villa, an independent son – but still it isn’t good enough. Even the swinger weekend trips he has been taking with his wife have become a joyless routine, and his youthful optimism and appetite for life are distant memories. Then, one day, at another swingers’ club, he does what swingers don’t do – he falls in love.
Acting
Martin Buch's deadpan desperation is uncomfortably perfect.
Direction
Munch-Fals makes swingers clubs feel tragically mundane.
Writing
Sharp Danish wit that stings more than it comforts.
Director
Mikkel Munch-Fals
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Denmark's liberal attitude toward sexuality lets this film explore emotional emptiness without moralizing — a very un-American approach to 'adultery' narratives.
Munch-Fals based the club scenes on actual research, which explains why the film lingers on awkward small talk rather than titillation — the real horror is the banality.
DK
