DOGGING: A LOVE STORY

UK, 2009, 93 minutes, Colour.
Luke Treadaway, Richard Riddell.
Directed by Simon Ellis.

Dogging: A Love Story is not a film that one could recommend. It looks like a pseudo-documentary, a young out-of-work journalist investigating sex in cars and voyeurs as a means of getting an article and an entrée into work.

The film is prurient in its comments on dogging and sexual behaviour as well as prurient and voyeuristic in presenting some sequences. The central character, played by twin Luke Treadaway (brother of Harry) is rather nondescript, lurking in chat rooms, setting up meetings, listening to his friend Rob (Richard Riddell) who is permissive in attitude, behaviour and lacking in all scruple.

There are two girls involved, one the central character’s friend in the chat room who turns out to be his girlfriend. The other is a young woman who is a voyeur.

The film is based on some articles about this kind of British sexual behaviour but offers very little by way of drama, comedy, romance or even any worthwhile social comment.