The Cabin Movie

This little Canadian film is one of the best independent features that captures beautiful British Columbia, Canada like it should be seen... the story is full of ups and downs that all young couples can relate too, and the whole cast felt so authentic with great chemistry. A very original script, full of dialog that seems so natural coming from the great cast. In my opinion one of the best Canadian Features I've seen in years! Its not very often that a young adult film about sexual exploration and relationships is shown in a realistic view by actors that seem so genuine. Rent this and support these young filmmakers so that more films of this quality will be produced.

Orgies and swinger movies are not the easiest of genres if at all approached with any sense of cinematic ambition.

Here are the strong points of The Cabin Movie: it depicts the logical implications of the mix of its characters to almost unbearably painful conclusions. We are all flawed. Mark and Katherine are trying hard to achieve professionally but are the two bottles that will be uncorked. Ken and Maria seem sensible enough, how we all might want to be, but they are in fact how we all are, lonely and cast back onto ourselves in our helpless attempts at intimacy. Jason is the truly lost one, the archetypical bloke. Ginny, his lover, is the grownup in the room, the earth mother, Wilhelm Meister's Natalie. She too remains alone. But not lonely.

So where the film succeeds is in showing how an impossible idea - hey we are friends lets get together over the weekend even though we rarely see each other and rarely manage to share intimate moments with anybody really, and lets have an orgy that we will film withour little handheld camera there - quickly runs into the wall. Socially awkward realism, not badly cast.

But boy is it all predictable, and once you peel off the pastiche of the setting there is nothing left to see, no emotional depth to any of the characters or their mutual relationships, little depth to their interactions, which are all premised on overdrawn stereotypes.

And there is no moral either, except the remarkable insight that the essence of intimacy happens behind the camera, not in front of it.

A salutary reflection on the genre overall though: viewer, what DID you expect to see here?

I'm not sure what the other reviewers were expecting, I'm sure at least one of you was expecting a sex romp and were mad because you didn't get it. I think everybody did a great job in this, portraying a story that would probably be a lot closer to real life if three real couples tried to arrange something like this. You've got the uptight couple, she wants to try it, he doesn't. You've got the nervous host couple who think they want to do it but aren't sure. And you've got the free-spirited couple who find out they might not be as open as they think. The Hollywood version would have 3 beautiful couples banging each other all weekend, I think this version is a lot more accurate. Sorry if it wasn't what you were expecting. Sure it won't win an Oscar for, well anything, but it was okay.

Actually this is a great movie from the plot and performance of the cast point of view but unfortunately it is not realistic.Three couples gathered in the same house for swinging and swapping their partners but there were no swapping except one and they were even in their clothes when having sex(intercourse).None of them fully undressed except Mark(Brad Dryborough) during the movie.For instance Maria (Arabella Bushnell),as host of the party,was in her underwear all the time who actually should undressed first in order to lead others.Dialog was not bad but more nudity and sex scenes should take place in this movie in order to reflect a real swinging party. In spite of this unrealistic scenes,I still recommend to everyone to see it.

I like this movie because the acting of the actors is quite genuine and honest. The actress who plays the role of the floozy (Justine Warrington) delivers an impressive talent as a singer, too. She even wrote and performed one of the songs in the film. The storyline is not bad, not bad at all. Although the film is a low budget one (i guess, because Justine has to do the stills, Dylan A. Smith was a director plus camera operator) it is well put together. For the director Dylan Akio Smith,(he's a Canadian) rising from a gaffer, electrician to producing films, i think he is quite amazingly talented. I hope to be able to see some of his others films.