crossbreeding

Rating: 9/10 (23 January 2005)

The subtext of homo-eroticism by proxy drives this film. What forces these men to obsessively cling to hopelessly frayed relationships is that they are then erotically bound to each other without ever touching. A brilliant idea brilliantly conceived by Patrick Marber. Mike Nichols, as in Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? and Carnal Knowledge, nails the irony of sex and love: men and women live in different Universes. And how about the small miracle of a sex-drenched movie without a single embarrassing, artsy scene of sweaty, writhing copulators? The early scene of cyber-sex between the two men reveals their shallowness and immaturity. The women caught between them can only try to cope as best they can in a testosterone-charged power struggle between these two fighting cocks.