On a Tuesday night, five couples have separate sexual adventures. Matt and Kris, friends for years, want to have an only-once, no-strings good time. Abby and Andrew, married, celebrate his birthday, but it's marred by angst and miscommunication. Mia and Eric are exes, making sure they are over each other. Jaime and Ken work together and this is a first date. Inez and Gord invite his roommate, Dave, to join them. By the time each couple has gone through a prelude, foreplay, sex, an interlude, orgasm, and afterglow, they've answered basic questions: can sex be anonymous, are we bored, is our marriage really finished, does anyone tell the truth, and how do we make someone happy?
The jarring skips required for clockwork peeks into each sexual narrative turn all the participants into reductive character sketches, spouting pithy one-liners and sporting ready-to-wear emotions on their sleeves.
– Stephen Garrett,
Time Out New York,
27 Aug 2008
rotten:
YPF caused a minor sensation at last year's Toronto Film Festival, but I guess the chance to see Canucks even partially disrobed is a selling point up there.
– Lou Lumenick,
New York Post,
29 Aug 2008
rotten:
Neither as extreme nor, for that matter, as interesting as its troublesome title.
– Justin Chang,
Variety,
2 Sep 2008
rotten:
A more accurate moniker for this sex comedy might be Attractive White People Nattering On.
– Tim Grierson,
L.A. Weekly,
11 Sep 2008
rotten:
The cast tries but rarely achieves an authenticity of emotional intimacy, as if everyone knows they're going to be cut away from -- how else to say it? -- prematurely.