What happens when the lust remains but a couple is no longer in like with one another?
When is a marriage worth saving or when do you accept that the relationship is simply gone past its best-before date?
What if one of you wants to save the marriage and the other wants to walk away?
Welcome to Random Acts of Romance.
It explores relationships that are falling apart and the lengths that the couples go to to salvage them, says director Katrin Bowen (Amazon Falls.) Its about everything thats involved with making love work.
They love each other but they stop liking each other, says Amanda Tapping, one of the 麻豆传媒映画actresses who stars in the movie that premieres this week at the 麻豆传媒映画International Film Festival. (In this role, the grand empress of sci-fi [Stargate, Sanctuary] is definitely playing against type. Tapping has been married for 18 years to a man she also considers her best friend.)
Its kind of an anti-romantic comedy, says Bowen. Guys will get it.
The movie is about two couples and the three single people who lead them down a dark path as they try to capture love. As the websites synopsis says, Random Acts of Romance shows us that love is not perfect. Its sloppy, messy and its what makes us human. At the end of the day, you have to laugh at it.
The move explores what happens when one person in each relationship comes to an understanding of where they are now and the other wants them to stay as they were when they first met, says Tapping.
And as much as the movie is about love, there is a lot of lust in the movie, Bowen says with a smile. Theyre really sexy.
But thats the thing about the sex side of love in a relationship that needs both loving and liking. The love might keep the sex going but the like is much harder.
If you dont like yourself, says Laura Bertram, one of the other actresses in the film, you will not be happy with anyone else.
Random Acts of Romance is at the Empire Granville at 6pm on Oct. 5, noon on Oct. 9 and 6pm on Oct. 12. Go to for tickets.
