Dating-app culture features people who are partnered yet eager to explain ethical non-monogamy rules. Ethical non-monogamy can be valid but often carries a reputation for condescension and emotional superiority in straight dating circles. Splitsville is an unromantic comedy by Kyle Marvin and Michael Angelo Covino about four friends whose loose boundaries imperil their relationships. The 104-minute film arrives amid renewed interest in open relationships and is set around New York. Jokes move at a rollicking pace with jolting zigs that land due to actors who add sensitivity to stock characters. The film begins with a rupture between Carey and Ashley that escalates into a car crash.
Or, rather, explain it how it works, what the rules are, why it's right for them. There is, of course, nothing inherently wrong with ethical non-monogamy actually, there can be a lot right nor should there be any universal expectations of romantic relationships besides mutual respect. But the reputation of ENMs in the straight dating world, however rightly earned, is suspect: expected condescension, mutually projected emotional superiority.
Enter Splitsville, a new so-called unromantic comedy from longtime friends and writing partners Kyle Marvin and Michael Angelo Covino about a foursome of friends imperiled by loose boundaries. Owing to the protracted timeline and gargantuan feat of simply making a movie, the 104-minute film arrives a few years after buzz around open relationships percolated again, at least in New York, the city around which these four characters spiritually orbit.
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