Open relationships, while increasingly common in the real world, generally get short-changed in cinema, perhaps because so many plots don’t really work if a couple are open - if Dan in “Fatal Attraction” was able to tell his wife, “Look, heads up: That one-night stand I mentioned, bit full-on as it turns out,” the narrative would fall apart like wet pastry. Before long, the subject of ethical non-monogamy comes up. It turns out, when Sandra and Rémy compare notes, that there is un petit discrepancy in their respective tallies of ex-lovers: While Rémy’s little black book contains just the three lucky ladies, Sandra’s magic number is in the dozens. Of course, this exotic premise is really just a jumping off point for a comedy-drama about romantic relationships - the audience is not meant to spent too much time thinking about the likelihood of such a condition you just have to go with it, as we did with the likes of “50 First Dates,” “13 Going on 30” or, in a different register, “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.” The point of such gambits is to provide an effective what-if framework, which this does perfectly well.
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