Joe and Angela (Seth Rogen and Olivia Wilde) are a San Francisco married pair whose relationship is already rocky, more than just a bit stale and stagnated. Their upstairs neighbors Hawk and his girlfriend, Pina (Edward Norton and Penélope Cruz), don’t have that problem. They make love, frequently and loudly, which irritates Joe considerably.
Hawk and Pina are swingers into group sex. Joe and Angela are not. At least, not yet.
Wilde, as the director, threads a tricky needle with this ribald “sex comedy” that doesn’t depict any full-on sex and eventually turns into a touching tale about relationships, resets of the heart and what it takes for a couple to make beautiful music together.
It’s based on a Spanish film called The People Upstairs, which was itself based on a play, and Wilde’s movie feels like somewhat of a return to the story's roots. It’s set almost entirely inside Joe and Angela’s apartment, like a stage set, where the four characters move through hallways, in and out of rooms as they progress through various emotions and temptations, play the blame game and spill forth their deep secrets. It’s a brisk, snappy spin on the facades—the walls—we often put up to hide behind, and as the old ‘60s song says, the games people play.
Is The Invite funny?
Cruz, an Oscar winner for Vicky Christina Barcelona, is totally on the money as a tantalizing, Spanish-hottie “sex therapist.” Norton—whose wide-ranging resume includes Fight Club, American History X and Moonrise Kingdom—gets to deliver a revealing soliloquy that sets up a tonal shift that reshapes things in the movie's final act.
And you won’t see many other films that turn flan, Rolfing, a Sade song, back pain, a collapsible bike and a burnt soufflé into laugh lines.
Also worth noting: We find out that Joe met his wife-to-be almost two decades ago, when he played in a band that—to his lingering disappointment—never got its ticket to the big time. But it did have one hit song, which happened to be about Angela. Joe’s resentment becomes a subplot itself and gives a framework of enhanced relevance to the movie’s closing music, a demo of a duet between Graham Nash and Joni Mitchell that became the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young classic “Our House.”
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“We only get a few chances for meaningful relationships in our lives,” Pina says. “What do we all want? To be desired.”
It keeps you guessing in an exhilarating way, driven by anticipation, discovery, confessionals and surprises, all within the walls of Joe and Angela’s home. Ultimately, it arrives at a place where fantasy and reality meet on life’s metaphysical road with parallel lanes of wild and weary—and where two people find what they truly need.
Rating: R
Streaming: Expected to arrive on streaming services in 30 to 45 days
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