- By :
- Alex YAZBEK
- With :
- Elma POSTMA, Renate STUURMAN, Maggie BENEDICT
- South Africa, 2010
- 143 min
Men come in all shapes and sizes. Some bring us love. Some bring us money. And some bring us sex. Seldom do we get all three.
This 13 part drama takes
an intelligent, but humorous look at the tricky terrain of modern romance and
familial relationships, all from a feminine perspective. Set in Johannesburg,
the series features three women, Grace, Roxanne and Sara, who are looking for
love in a time and place where nobody’s quite sure whether the family model is
monogamous or polygamous. Two of our three protagonists, all attractive, bright
and independent women, have to make a choice between remaining single or trying
to make things work with men who fail to deliver and are unwilling to get up to
speed with feminism. The third is a lesbian, looking for a man to father her
child.
The series is highly contemporary and asks brave questions about partnerships in a world where men and women look to each other for emotional fulfillment yet no longer seem to be speaking the same language. Using humor, multifaceted characters and animal mating habits as motifs to make comment on human behaviors, The Mating Game offers both men and women the chance to recognize themselves on the screen and to laugh out loud at the debacle of modern relationships.
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