First impressions of The Threesome
Chad Hartigan's fourth feature finds him once again dodging genre conventions and finding something singular, as he plants intriguing characters in messy situations and chooses grace over ruin.
“Is this a weird hug?”
One of the three leads in Chad Hartigan’s The Threesome asks that question during an embrace that makes obvious just how messy their relationship has become. And it stuck with me for the rest of the film. Something as seemingly simple as a hug becomes a lot more complicated if one or both participants are attracted to the other, if the boundaries of that relationship are not clear to both, and if they have a history of hurting each other.
In this film, hugs may be the least complicated of the encounters between characters.
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