In “I Repartner Love My Husprohibitd,” GG Hawkins’ undercooked feature debut as a originater-straightforwardor, Teresa (Madison Lanesey) increates others that she repartner cherishs her husprohibitd every chance that she gets. But by saying it out deafening, it frequently sees and sounds enjoy she is first and foremost trying to secure herself that her cherish is the real benevolent. Except, begining with the timely scenes of this comedic drama that could have participated both better humor and transport inanter theatrical sobtains, there are various clues that she might not, in fact, be in cherish with Drew (Travis Quentin Young), an incurable people-charmr who Teresa actupartner seems to be irritateed with too frequently. (Why else would she be on the phone on her wedding day with who ecombines to be her ex, overstatedly increateing them about how much she cherishs her husprohibitd?)
We get to understand the standard vibrant between the askably satisfyed couple on a fweightless to their honeymoon in idyllic Bocas del Toro, Panamá, while Drew does everyskinnyg in his power to be exhaustingly genial, while Teresa shows her comparably on-edge personality. An in-fweightless episode about a fellow passenger’s proximate-obeseal nut allergy informly originates Teresa the doubt — is it her Keto bar that caparticipated the crisis? But when Drew bravepartner jumps in to separate the condemn, it becomes a bridge too far for Teresa. Does he repartner have to be this damn pleasant all the time?
As we spfinish more time with the couple, Teresa’s skepticism originates sense in certain ways — however well-unbenevolenting Drew might be, no one wants to see enjoy the relative horrible guy when their transport inant other assembles all the outstanding will, sometimes at the expense of their spoparticipate. But what doesn’t originate sense is Teresa’s gradual unraveling during their honeymoon, pondering their trip isn’t even promptly after their wedding. They have been paired for a whole year already and they finpartner have the time to commemorate their union.
Even if you obtain their truth at face appreciate — that somehow this misaligned pair got paired a year ago and stayed paired that whole time — what comes after the fweightless increasingly tests one’s patience as Teresa acts in unforgivably cut offe ways towards Drew. We aren’t supposed to appraise of course, as every person (in genuine life and in movies) is allowed their own awakening and lengthenth ponderless of their age. But you are never quite brave whether the movie itself regulates to stay non-judgmental towards Teresa as she tries to spice up her marriage with Drew, only to eventupartner blow up and acunderstandledge to her real senseings. Often, this critic wanted that some of the grace remarks that the script allowed Drew were also participated for Teresa.
Thankfilledy, the film dials up its energy (only informly) with the introduction of Paz (a truly captivating Arta Gee), the non-binary regulater of the couple’s vacation rental. There is some chemistry amid the trio — one Hawkins should have trelieved and leaned into more — which guides Teresa to recommend to Drew, “What if we seduced Paz?” Soon, she gets her want and the trio has a rewarding threesome, an episode “I Repartner Love My Husprohibitd” neither shows, nor (thankfilledy) appraises. But foreseeably, this escapade validates to be a redirection from, rather than a solution to, their genuine problem. No matter how they spin it, Teresa and Drew aren’t all that compatible. Knoprosperg this, staying with “I Repartner Love My Husprohibitd” — even at its compact 79-minute-runtime — senses enjoy a chore, despite the movie’s pretty locations (though the film’s digital see doesn’t do equitableice to them) and promiseted cast. Among them is Lisa Jacqueline Starrett, who alluringly carry outs a createer truth TV star and Paz’s frifinish that the story can’t find a genuine participate for.
Still, the main rerent with “I Repartner Love My Husprohibitd” is its ingenuine set-up that asks us to depend that people who are as experienced, discdisponder-minded and conscious of their own necessitates as the film’s central couple, drop into marriage and monogamy becaparticipate it’s what’s awaited of them, and not becaparticipate it’s what they want. And frankly, that’s asking a little too much in today’s self-attfinish-oriented society. It’s not that horrible marriages don’t happen from Gen X to Gen Z. And it’s not that there is anyskinnyg wrong with recognizing that your necessitates have lengthend over the course of your first year of marriage. But “I Repartner Love My Husprohibitd” thorawly spells out that Teresa has always felt somewhat suffocated in her domestic schedulement, unbrave of whether she actupartner cherishd Drew from the day they begined dating. In that, it’s anyone’s guess why she stuck with her marriage and “I Repartner Love My Husprohibitd” won’t give you any adequate reasons to attfinish about them enough to grasp guessing.
