The subject of swinging still seems ripe for a documentary -- just not this one.
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02/25/02
Sex With Strangers (2002)
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Reviews Counted:31
Fresh:12
Rotten:19
Average Rating:5.2/10
Synopsis: SEX WITH STRANGERS focuses on swinging--or couples engaging openly in sex with other, often multiple, partners. Filmed on digital video over a year by filmmakers Joe and Harry Gantz (HBO's Taxicab... [More]
Director: Joe Gantz, Harry Gantz
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Reviews for Sex With Strangers
It leers, offering next to little insight into its intriguing subject.
05/17/02
Sex With Strangers will shock many with its unblinking frankness. But what is missing from it all is a moral. What is the filmmakers’ point? Why did they deem it necessary to document all this emotional misery?
10/07/02
It's a documentary that says that the alternate sexuality meant to set you free may require so much relationship maintenance that celibacy can start looking good.
10/11/02
Top CriticIf you want to see a train wreck that you can’t look away from, then look no further, because here it is.
12/08/02
While we see a lot of clammy groping and creepy parties, we also witness the couples going through their inevitable emotional traumas even as they struggle to sublimate their spiritual needs into sex.
06/01/02
I didn't find much fascination in the swinging. What they're doing is a matter of plumbing arrangements and mind games, of no erotic or sensuous charge. But that they are doing it is thought-provoking.
08/16/02
Top CriticA film that forces you to bring along and confront your own sexual mores, whether you like it or not.
08/15/02
Top CriticEven a hardened voyeur would require the patience of Job to get through this interminable, shapeless documentary about the swinging subculture.
04/26/02
Top CriticIt's the element of condescension, as the filmmakers look down on their working-class subjects from their lofty perch, that finally makes Sex With Strangers, which opens today in the New York metropolitan area, so distasteful.
04/26/02
Top CriticAs a thoughtful and unflinching examination of an alternative lifestyle, Sex with Strangers is a success.
09/20/02
Top CriticCouples titillated by the possibility of swinging will probably leave the theater gripping each other's hands a little more tightly.
09/13/02
Psychologically revealing.
04/26/02
The Gantzes' interviews tend to let the guys off the hook.
09/27/02
The result is more depressing than liberating, but it's never boring.
03/01/02
Top CriticFinally, a movie for people who just can't get enough Jerry Springer.
08/31/02
Top CriticIf you've ever entertained the notion of doing what the title of this film implies, what Sex With Strangers actually shows may put you off the idea forever.
05/25/02
You emerge dazed, confused as to whether you've seen pornography or documentary.
02/28/02
An empty, purposeless exercise.
05/03/02
Rarely has sex on screen been so aggressively anti-erotic.
04/25/02
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