Ahead of International Swingers Day (August 13), Kino Lorber will release Mauro Russo Rouge’s intimate documentary Bloom Up: A Swinger Couple Story in theaters on August 12, 2022.
Bloom Up which made its World Premiere at the 2021 Hot Docs Documentary Film Festival, is directed and shot by Mauro Russo Rouge, who spent a year immersed in the swinger lifestyle of his subjects.
Pet shop owners by day and swingers by night, Italian couple Hermes and Betta are, in most ways, regular people. In this honest, sex-positive look at the swinger lifestyle, director and cinematographer Mauro Russo Rouge is invited into their lives with no moment off-limits, crafting a portrait of a relationship that gives equal weight to the mundane yet strangely fascinating logistics of organizing sex parties as it does to the act itself. Shot in a rich visual style that is deeply sensual without ever feeling vulgar or exploitative, Bloom Up is an intimate exploration of the deep love and complex challenges one polyamorous couple shares.
“… I am sure that Bloom Up will attract not only the so-called “horizontal” audience, but also the more “vertical” ordinary viewers”, commented director Mauro Russo Rouge.
Watch the official trailer for Bloom Up: A Swinger Couple Story.
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