THE LOVERS

USA 2017 - DCP - 97 minutes, in English

Director, Screenplay: Azazel Jacobs

Producers: Ben LeClair, Chris Stinson

Cast: Debra Winger, Tracy Letts, Aidan Gillen, Melora Walters

Print Courtesy: A24

Longtime married couple Mary and Michael are perhaps bored in their lives. And most definitely bored in their marriage. Secretly, each has taken a serious lover, and each lover has a burning desire for them. Both Mary (Winger) and Michael (Tracey Letts) have vowed to tell their spouses of their new flames and desire for a divorce as soon as their grown son and his partner, who are coming for a rare short visit home, depart. But a funny (or is it?) thing happens: at precisely this moment, Mary and Michael suddenly rediscover…well, let’s put it this way: the hots for each other, in Aza Jacobs’ unusual recent indie comedy with a touch of the not-so-comic to it. “Its emotional reserves are deeper and more capacious, its sense of mystery more profound, than in just about any American movie of any scale I’ve seen in recent memory”—Justin Chang, L.A. Times. —Ken Eisen