THE END OF SEX

Canada, 2022, 87 minutes, Colour.

Emily Hampshire, Jonas Chernik, Gray Powell, Lily Gao, Melanie Stefano.

Directed by Sean Garrity.

Fairly broad sex comedy. Well every human experience can be the subject of comedy, the assessment of its value is in the “How?”.

The film starts innocuously, a 10 year married couples seeing off their two daughters to a summer camp, finding themselves alone, wondering what to do, and, quick enough, the issue of sex coming up. The treatment is comic with all kinds of captions appearing during the film to focus audience attention and humour.

Older audiences may be reminded of the past. Younger audiences may wonder about their parents all this is a film for the middle-aged.

The couple have their moments of bewilderment, he working in an advertising agency and being interrogated by his co-worker who is very Frank about sex, engages in conversation with him, tries to bring him out of himself. She is co-teaching art to children during the summer, going to a Gallery and meeting the owner who had an infatuation with her in high school, very Frank in his expressions (and her noting that he doesn’t use a filter in his remarks). She fantasises about him, later meet him.

However, rather than the more surprising and, perhaps, eyebrow-raising is a scene of a threesome between the couple and the wife’s assistant at the art school. Although, the husband seems excluded from the whole event. Then they could decide to go to a sex club where they discover her mother and father present, to her embarrassment.

So, a somewhat titillating experience for them, for the audience, but many audiences may consider the whole experience rather silly.