Bloom Up: A Swinger Couple Story

A sweet documentary portrait of two people testing the limits of sexual desire.

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Bloom Up: A Swinger Couple Story

Pet shop owners by day and swingers by night, Italian couple Hermes and Betta are, in most ways, regular people. In this honest, sex-positive look at the swinger lifestyle, director and cinematographer Mauro Russo Rouge is invited into their lives with no moment off-limits, crafting a portrait of a relationship that gives equal weight to the mundane yet strangely fascinating logistics of organizing sex parties as it does to the act itself.

Shot in a rich visual style that is deeply sensual without ever feeling vulgar or exploitative, the film is an intimate exploration of the deep love and complex challenges one polyamorous couple shares.
Not Rated
Genre
Documentary, Sexuality
Runtime
88
Language
Italian
Director
Mauro Russo Rouge
FEATURED REVIEW
Lee Marshall, Screen International

Subtitled “a swinger couple story”, Italian director Mauro Russo Rouge’s first documentary after a string of low-budget fiction features is a portrait of an apparently happily married couple in a northern Italian town who, of an evening, like to have sex with other people, together. For the non ...

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