Just perfect...

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

This film is neither boring nor pointless, that there are people who see it this way, makes its importance even more clear. I did certainly not give the film such a high rating, because I am looking for love stories, but because there is an important point being made: it is falsely being said, that it is about the breaking of a taboo, the right thing to do is to make clear that there are no taboos here at all. Are we really still so behind in gender equality? It is not about incestuous intercourse between relatives, it is not about seduction of minors, it is about four grown-ups who find each other, and that they are cross-over related does not matter at all. If it were not the sons but the brothers of the women, then there would be the same great firestorm, I am sure, because what many reviewers seriously see as repulsive is the mere fact that the women are much older - so what ?? Biology (to put it in a corny way: the early loss of virility with age and the late flowering of female sensuality) even suggests that this way it makes all the more sense. And since the world is horribly overpopulated anyway, you do not need to bring the argument of childbearing. Fact: if disgusting old men lay their wrinkled hands on young women and girls, it is called normal, if the sexes are reversed (then the whole thing is not half as disgusting, but) it is called a scandal and repulsive etc.-why? Because men like to have it this way and the men determine everything and most women are so stupid and obey. Fact is also, that -as the film shows- (unfortunately) it is still unconventional, but just does not have to be nasty and that it is not better to act sensible/ in accordance with the social expectations and break up an intimacy and affection and attempt the conventional model instead – this way everybody will suffer in the end. And about the speculation whether Lil and Roz indirectly live out a lesbian relationship through the sons: it would not bother me if they were lesbian, but they are not, it is about an intimate connection, which they intensify/deepen by this cross-over relationship, not about indirect lesbian sex - fortunately not everything is about sex! Conclusion: relevant issue, as it is still a "taboo" / an inequality between women and men - for silly, vain reasons. -> No breach of taboo since there is no taboo just deep affection which is being sacrificed for social conventions which makes everybody unhappy.

I've read many reviews from critics who don't digest this movie for the diversity and perspective it deserves. I ask that when you decide to watch this movie, give it your full attention and pay mind to the smallest of details, the director was very mindful of the smallest of gestures.There aren't many movies that approach the concept behind Adore that are done so in this very beautiful manner. The numerous metaphors and overlapping really set a specific perspective that pleads for open-mindedness.--- spoilers----Two mothers grow up as very close friends in a rather isolated lifestyle with minimal external stimuli. The opening scene is that of these two youthful looking women adoring their sons as these "greek gods," if you will. With one distant father and another non-present; this quadriad has spent an infinite amount of time becoming attached to each other. In addition, the women are foreshadowed as having a sort of "lesbian" relationship, even though that's not exactly the case. There is definitely a certain amount of adoration occurring between the two mothers a well. Thus, when they become entangled in each others sons, the crazy, beautiful, and yet destructive tsunami of adoration begins. They do this, for two years. They keep their secretive loves to themselves. Functioning as four friends, four lovers, two mothers, two sons. They all care about each other so deeply, that is becomes a very isolated relationship. When it is questioned and tried towards the middle, we see their relationships break. We watch some of them become destructive. It's this very strange relationship, that in this day in age, we do not accept as realistic. However, there are many circumstances in which the way we develop love is rather view unnatural. And the way this falls apart and back together is strange and amazing. It really makes one re-evaluate the destructiveness of this kind of love and what it can really do to your life. If it's worth such a sacrifice.

more for the wise end than the story. because, at the first sigh, it is a summer film. the story seems be not original. the performances are decent, the story - eccentric but, basically credible.. but the science to use the tension is the secret to have the status of different film about forbidden love. and that detail is the piece who transforms the film in support for the questions about family, relation mother - son, essence of love, right and bad choices. a film who does a good job. for the fine manner to present a delicate case. for the gentle-precise science to explore the detail. for the dialogs. and, sure, for the ambiguous end .

I wanted to see what would happen even afterwords,I wanted it to continue. I was stunned to my seat with lot of thoughts and emotions. Tanned surfing teenage boys with model-beautiful mothers in bikinis, The beautiful filming that is so well themed and constructed, this relaxed and ecstatic feel that transcends from the screenmaking the audience feel the exact erotic atmosphere in which the characters dwell and that pull of desire that comes across in the silence and in the sound of the ocean; and Robin Wright's extremely deep character building and original portrayal of female strength, pull the film together to a true work of art. The location, beach houses, cinematography are beautiful and makes you want to move to Australia. Just for that the movie is worth watching.