GAYLETTER

You may have seen the trailer for the new film Adore starring Naomi Watts and Robin Wright as two mothers, and childhood best friends, who fall in love with each other’s 20-year-old sons. It’s quite dramatic. In the theatre I first saw the trailer in people actually gasped. While Adore’s subject matter may be “provocative” and “shocking” I came away from the film less scandalized and more mildly titillated. Although I was impressed at how well Robin Wright can pull off an Aussie accent. Set in an unnamed beachside paradise in Northern New South Wales, Adore is like the ultimate ad campaign for Tourism Australia. Filled with countless shots of the glistening young men surfing, swimming, showering, sun bathing, it’ll definitely make you wanna book your next vacay downunder. The problem with the film is that the nature shots and man candy are almost more interesting than the story. It’s told over 10 years, yet neither the sons or the moms seem to age (and here I was thinking sun speeds up the aging process?). Not a lot happens. The story is told almost exclusively through the eyes of the 4 characters making it seem a little small. But that’s not to say you shouldn’t go see it, it’s still miles ahead of most of the crap at the movies this weekend. Plus there’s this really hot scene where the boys fight each other in the ocean. Yum.  —tom