The Lifestyle

What sort of people engage in recreational group sex on a regular basis? David Schisgall's documentary The Lifestyle provides one answer: mostly cheerful, but paunchy, suburban couples who have either slipped into middle age or are starting to advance past it. For the most part, they look like ...more

The Lifestyle is eye-opening and often quite funny, but never delivers the incisive exploration of this subculture that it promises. Despite the willingness of the participants to literally bare all for the camera, the filmmakers never manage to get any further than their surface attitudes and behaviors. The big problem is that David Schisgall allows the participants to speak without guidance instead of subjecting them to a carefully crafted interview process -- as a result, they devote their ...more