Autoerotic
Film poster
Directed by
Written by
Produced byJoe Swanberg
Starring
Cinematography
  • Adam Wingard
  • Chris Hilleke
Edited byAdam Wingard
Music byLane Hughes
Production
company
Swanberry
Distributed byIFC Midnight
Release date
  • July 22, 2011 (2011-07-22)
Running time
73 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Autoerotic is a 2011 comedy-drama film directed by Joe Swanberg and Adam Wingard, written by Swanberg, Wingard, and Simon Barrett, and starring Kate Lyn Sheil, Amy Seimetz, Lane Hughes, Kris Swanberg, Ti West, and Frank V. Ross. IFC Midnight released it to video on demand on July 22, 2011.

Premise

Four couples in Chicago attempt to deal with their relationship troubles by resorting to masturbation, frequently.

Cast

The characters are all unnamed.

Release

IFC Midnight released the film on July 22, 2011.[1]

Reception

Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that 30% of 10 surveyed critics gave the film a positive review; the average rating was 4.71/10.[2] Metacritic rated it 48/100 based on five reviews.[3] Peter Debruge of Variety called it "vaguely titillating" but of questionable interest to audiences.[4] A. O. Scott of The New York Times likened it to R-rated O. Henry stories and said it is more disciplined than Swanberg's previous films.[5] Mark Holcomb of The Village Voice wrote that it "is only sporadically a good sex comedy".[6] Diego Costa of Slant Magazine rated it 2/4 stars and wrote that mumblecore filmmakers' search for authenticity has led their films to become artificial.[7] Jason Bailey of DVD Talk rated it 2/5 stars and called it "little more than a series of sniggering, mediocre dirty jokes".[8]

References

  1. ^ Smith, Nigel M. (2011-07-12). "iW EXCLUSIVE: The NSFW Trailer for Joe Swanberg & Adam Wingard's "Autoerotic"". Indiewire. Retrieved 2015-08-15.
  2. ^ "Autoerotic (2011)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved August 6, 2019.
  3. ^ "Autoerotic". Metacritic. Retrieved 2015-08-15.
  4. ^ Debruge, Peter (2011-07-21). "Review: 'Autoerotic'". Variety. Retrieved 2015-08-15.
  5. ^ Scott, A. O. (2011-07-21). "When Sex Is Loneliness Multiplied". The New York Times. Retrieved 2015-08-15.
  6. ^ Holcomb, Mark (2011-07-20). "Sex Is Comedy, Kind of, in Autoerotic". The Village Voice. Retrieved 2015-08-15.
  7. ^ Costa, Diego (2011-07-21). "Autoerotic". Slant Magazine. Retrieved 2015-08-15.
  8. ^ Bailey, Jason (2011-07-22). "Autoerotic". DVD Talk. Retrieved 2015-08-15.

External links

Films directed by Adam Wingard
Works by Joe Swanberg
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