Four Lovers (2012)

0% of critics liked it
(10 reviews)
37% of users liked it
(122 ratings)

In this sexy, French romantic drama, two couples decide to explore the boundaries of their relationships by swapping partners. What starts as a fun, free-spirited ménage-a-4 experimentation full of sleepovers, shared vacations, and dinner parties soon turns into a hotbed of desire, anger, and… More In this sexy, French romantic drama, two couples decide to explore the boundaries of their relationships by swapping partners. What starts as a fun, free-spirited ménage-a-4 experimentation full of sleepovers, shared vacations, and dinner parties soon turns into a hotbed of desire, anger, and confusion. As their arrangement leads them down an increasingly surprising and provocative path, the lovers begin to question their personal choices and lifestyles, leading to consequences none of them could foresee. -- (C) Oscilloscope

Rating, Runtime: Unrated, 1 hr. 43 min.
Directed By: Antony Cordier
Written By: Antony Cordier, Julie Peyr
Genres: Art House & International, Romance

In Theaters: Mar 30, 2012 Limited
Studio: Oscilloscope Pictures

Critic Reviews

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
You know there's something wrong with a sex movie when the good parts are the dialogue.
Farran Smith Nehme, New York Post
Offers only dull characters playing for extremely low stakes.
Stephen Holden, New York Times
Too lazy and too scared to say anything pertinent about love, society and the human condition, "Four Lovers" is content to be a pleasant, mildly titillating divertissement with no meaning at all.
Benjamin Mercer, Village Voice
Cordier remains sensitive to the subtle shifts in the foursome's dynamics, but do we really need another handwringer about the perils of polyamory?
Todd Jorgenson, Cinemalogue.com
The results are mildly surprising, somewhat predictable, and mostly mundane.
Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York
You can waste your time with hotter options.
Bill Weber, Slant Magazine
This handsome mate-swapping drama never moves beyond the erotic to become incisive about the barriers built into sexual experimentation for committed couples.
Joseph Proimakis, Movies for the Masses
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Simon Foster, sbs.com.au
Perpetuating the cliché that most modern Gauls are skinny, sexed-up chain smokers, Antony Cordier's frank but feeble drama is the sort of film that people who never watch French films think all French films are like.
Kent Turner, Film-Forward.com
The inevitable happens. You can count the minutes until it gets ugly.