A film from 2004, I watched it about a month ago, and it has stayed with me. Chance meetings and instance attraction - two couples bound together through love, deception, honesty and jealousy. Relationships are complicated and people can be cruel, even when in love.
"The truth," one says. "Without it, we're animals."
At times the characters are so brutally truthful it is painful to watch. As the four characters seduce and become seduced, their relationships seem based as much on lies as they are on deceit. These are smart, articulate and beautiful people - driven by passion, shameless deceptions, forthright sincerity, and then jealousy. The more they confess the less, it seems, they can trust anyone.
A bonus is the soundtrack:
